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Carlos E. R. schreef: > > The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 15:23 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >>>> Your problem is to have a /boot partition altogether. They haven't been >>>> needed in many years. If you decide to make a /boot anyway and make it >>>> only 15M, it's your own fault. ;) >>> That's not completely true, they are needed with older hardware. >> I doubt that. My oldest hardware is 97/98 and it doesn't need it. Those >> boxes (of mine) have 64MB RAM max, SUSE doesn't even install on that any >> more since 10.0(?). > >> Question: how many systems out there which have 128MB RAM need a >> separate /boot partition? > > The problem is not RAM, but the bios. The bios services are used at first > by lilo/boot to read the initial files, and older/buggy bioses simply can > not access HD beyond a certain point. > > My machine, circa 2001, has some problems with big disks. The problem started with 10.2. All the time, from 9 until 10.1, you could use 15M, and two kernels would easily fit in that partition.. That way i could boot the kernel i wanted, to test it with the hardware.. (The early 10. and 10.1 kernels failed to start-up the powermanager, which resulted in a constantly noisy rotating fan.) Now, in 10.2, these sizes are changed, that is the reason that now only one-and-a-half kernel fits in 15M, now there is only 38% free, to be correct. 5.9M free, from 15.4M, and symsets and symtypes are added.. We have: initrd:3M, vmlinuz:1,5M vmlinux.gz:2M. Ofcourse grub resides in /boot..... It is not allways *nessesary* to have a seperate /boot partition, but works more *clean* in fact, i am only one cilinder short..... (i am only saying that it would be nice to be able to finetune a nice os as SuSE is, without taking too much time and risk, that is all...) Have a nice time ;) M9. > - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFazcaX5/X5X6LpDgRAj9AAJ9sXaPPYumrZSW1ZZCymmnIGF3qzQCff/vg HSu4xKAMKHGhSXId0xGyXVA= =1ljY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
