On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 05:20 am, many eyes noted that James Sparenberg wrote: > > This was really my original question, though. I don't have a /boot > > partition, so where do the custom kernels reside, where are they > > installed to, I would assume the same location as the existing/default > > kernel(s)? Is it enough that I have a /boot dir but not a /boot > > partition? This is where my confusion is coming from, I guess... > > I think it's mostly an age thing. As in how long you've been around > Linux not how long you've been alive. At one point in time it was very > necessary to have a /boot partition. (the old 1024 problem.) So the > end result is that a lot of users say boot partition by habit. It > really doesn't make a diff whether it is a separate partition or not. > Anymore. > > James
Recently I installed a machine that I kept for myself and put a /boot partition in for the first time. Have never had one previously, and recall with Red Hat there was always the warning that the partition I was booting would be too large to allow it to work. But said that the system appeared to be modern or good enough or something of that nature to manage it. It always did. But then I don't use Red Hat much anymore personally, though I still have 9 on one system. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon >From a stagnant pool, >From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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