On Monday 01 November 2004 08:07, Peter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > /boot partition within the first 500 megabytes of the drive. > > 20 MB would be more than enough. I have 3 kernels on my /boot and use a > little less than 10 MB
For what its worth. AFAIK the reason why we ever needed a /boot partition was a way around lilo's former limit of booting from a partition ( or i had better say) a kernel image which was placed beyond the 1023 cylinder limit of old style BIOS's. lilo does not have that limit anymore nor do most (i think i could say "all" bios's) now a days. So what i am saying is the following. Today we don't need a separate /boot partition, one may have there own reasons for doing so, but linuxwise, there is no reason to have one thesedays because the old <1023 cyl, limit is gone for ever. > Regards -- If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
