On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:26:26PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote: > On Mon 09 Feb 2004 at 17:31:54, Justin Findlay said: > > 64 MB /boot #and turn on 'noauto' in /etc/fstab (see 'man fstab') > > I've never found a /boot partition to be necessary, or even useful. > Supposedly it's so that you don't accidentally hose your boot files > (kernel and grub/lilo config). But if you hose your root partition, > you're screwed anyway. It's just a lot better to boot off a knoppix CD, > chroot into your hard drive, and start repairs from there.
True, but if you are running more than one distro, it is easier to have a common /boot partition. Justin _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
