The other advantage to a small /boot minidisk of its own in a VM environment is that if you mess it up (like your maintenance to the kernel missed doing mkinitrd/zipl) , you can DDR a good one from a another server.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund R. MacKenty Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Question DASD on CLIENT from Start system instructions On Wednesday 02 July 2008 12:02, Mark Post wrote: >Some people like to break /boot out into a separate partition, even on >System z. It's not necessary, per se, since mainframe's don't have any >BIOS limitations to work around. But, some people feel more >comfortable with it, or want their mainframe systems to look more like >their midrange ones. One reason for having /boot on a separate filesystem is to keep it safe. Some distros (Gentoo, perhaps Debian?) default to a separate /boot filesystem which is not mounted by default. This keeps your pesky users from mucking with it. It also ensures that the /boot filesystem is never mounted read-write during normal operations, including reboots. This pretty much avoids the possibility of filesystem corruption. The only time you mount it read-write is when you have to install a new kernel into it. So a separate /boot is a safety measure. - MacK. ----- Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
