On 10/9/07, Darren J Moffat <darrenm at opensolaris.org> wrote: > vineet kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > When I installed Open Solaris (X86 platform) i created a separate /boot > > partition. > > Why did you do that ? > What perceived problem were you trying to solve ? > > What documentation for OpenSolaris/Solaris lead you to wanting to do that ? Darren,
I think Vineet is coming from a Linux background. It used to be that there were, and still may be, advantages to using a separate /boot in Linux. If I recall correctly /boot just contains the booted kernel, and can only reside on /ext2. (At the time there was no ext3). /boot can also optionally contain kernel backups and kernels with different compile options. (For those times when you recompiled the kernel w/ a new module, and needed the old kernel to fallback to if things went tits up. I think one of the main reasons at the time, to use a separate /boot was if you wanted to use a different filesystem for /, as the kernel image needed to reside on a ext2+ filesystem. Cheers, Brian > > -- > Darren J Moffat > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
