You can mount read-only /boot. And you can't use LILO outside 1024 bootable cylinders. (Might've changed).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gavin Carr Sent: Friday, 28 February 2003 15:14 To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] /boot partitions 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
