Hey sluggers, Is there any sort of consensus on whether /boot partitions are necessary these days (at least on modern hardware)? I thought they were mostly a workaround to the old 1024 cylinder problem with flaky BIOSes, but distros seem to still like using them when autopartitioning. The Large Disk HOWTO [1] seems to imply that problems with large disks are largely a thing of the past now, so is there any other good reason for having a /boot?
Cheers, Gavin [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-2.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
