A couple of questions:

1) fdisk 'x'pert mode disks allows up to 63 sectors per track.  some
larger disks ( > 1GB) have more than 63 sectors per track.  Is this
limit hard or can it be changed?

2) I'd like to use shoelace or lilo.  when I partition my disk I took
the first 8 cyls for root and the next 12 for swap.

when I print the partition table it looks like
                Boot    Begin   Start   End     Blocks  Type
/dev/sd1a               2       2       16800   8399    MINIX/fs
/dev/sd1b               1       16801   42000   12600   MINIX/swap

I assume the the 'Begin' of 2 for /dev/sd1a is skipping the boot
block?  I'm also guessing that I can't use this partition for lilo or
shoelace?  Can I just make the root partition something other than the
first partition, e.g. exchange root and swap and then use lilo?  Or must
I leave one cylinder at the beginning of the disk empty and start root
at the second cylinder.  As this disk is not my boot disk, do I need
a boot block at all?

3)  Which should I use, Lilo or Shoelace?  Why?  Will either
get me a faster boot than using autocon and bootlin?


I don't think any of these are in the FAQ.  But I may have missed something.
Does anyone else have problems finding things in the FAQ?  It would be
nice if the FAQ questions were numbered and a list of them were placed
at the front of the FAQ.

As not to whine without offering help,  I'd be happy to help organize the
FAQ if desired.

cheers,
ted