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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:06 PM

>Small note. Very few, if any, PC's or current versions of Linux require a
>"/boot" partition of its own. That partition is a legacy of old BIOS
>limitations (of 8 Gig for certain master boot record behavior). If you
>actually need a "/boot" partition, it should be situated very early, if
>not first, on the disk, preferably with no cylinder on that partition
>numbered more than 1023.
>
>Putting it after your XP partition, which is probably more than 8 Gig,
>gains
>a normal user exactly nothing and is a waste of your time and effort.

Absolutely not true at all. Fact is, fewer and fewer distributions
do more than boot with the /boot partition. In other words, after booting
IT IS NOT MOUNTED so should be on a separate partition in reality. Plenty
of folks have had problems booting a system without an allocated /boot
partition. A /boot partition will rarely need more than 100MB of space
allocated to it. READING the installation and use docs for a distribution,
or just looking at how partitions are automatically allocated by a
distribution reveals this simply and easily.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:07 PM

>Plenty
> of folks have had problems booting a system without an allocated /boot
> partition.> distribution reveals this simply and easily.

One reason for this ...

If you had a system without swapspace and you wanted an xfs filesystem on it
you will find you cannot install lilo onto it that partition.

You would have this need if you wanted to use some other boot menu and so
couldnt you the MBR.. and had heaps of ram.

You would still another partition for booting.
You wouldnt need to mount it at /boot, it would just have to hold the lilo
boot sector.

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