On 8/6/07, Stephen Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe / maybe not the place to ask,  but what would be the technical reason 
> for making a /boot partition?
> I make one out of habit as a result of getting it in before the first 4 gigs 
> of the hard drive from the good old days.
>

As of today GRUB can't read/boot the Linux kernel from a LVM volume.
So if you use LVM you have no choice and have to use a separate /boot
partition. Or when I use Xen I always set up a separate /boot
partitions on all my domU without a journaling filesystem.

Warm Regards,
Claes Backstrom
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