On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Fargusson.Alan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It is not the case the /boot is the issue.  As soon as the kernel starts it 
> mounts the root.  If mounting the root fails then the kernel gives up, and 
> you have to recover the root filesystem.

The motivation to split off /boot stems from ancient PC hardware etc
that required the boot stuff to be on low cylinder numbers. So you
made a /boot partition that resides at the start of the disk.
This has no relevance with Linux on z/VM (unless you want to do
something like a 2nd IPL volume for Linux to back-out a kernel update,
but that takes a bit more to do it right).
-Rob

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