Creating The /Boot/ Partition - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

On the Disk Partitioning Setup screen, select Manually partition with Disk Druid.

8.2.1. Creating the /boot/ Partition

In a typical situation, the disk drives are new, or formatted clean. The following figure,
"Two Blank Drives, Ready For
configured.
Figure 8.2. Two Blank Drives, Ready For Configuration
Warning
The /boot/ partition cannot reside on an LVM volume group because the GRUB boot
loader cannot read it.
1. Select New.
2. Select /boot from the Mount Point pulldown menu.
3. Select ext3 from the File System Type pulldown menu.
4. Select only the sda checkbox from the Allowable Drives area.
5. Leave 100 (the default) in the Size (MB) menu.
6. Leave the Fixed size (the default) radio button selected in the Additional Size Options area.
Configuration", shows both drives as raw devices with no partitioning
Creating the /boot/ Partition
Figure 8.2,
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