>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcy
Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 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.

For problems like this, I like Rob's idea of having an always-running rescue 
guest that can link to other guests's minidisks and do repair activities.  In 
this case it's probably no big deal either way, but I would think that having 
things not get done like mkinitrd and zipl would be a very rare exception, 
worthy of bug reports to your distribution provider.

But, I never said people shouldn't do this, I just said it wasn't necessary, 
per se.  There's a lot of things people do differently than I would.  Unless 
it's likely to cause them problems, I'm fine with that.


Mark Post

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