From: Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
To: Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partitons and proper order
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:33:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411012033.12853.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101070754.CE0D9255BA@heisspf>
On Monday 01 November 2004 08:07, Peter wrote:
> mike@kevino.org said:
> > /boot partition within the first 500 megabytes of the drive.
>
> 20 MB would be more than enough. I have 3 kernels on my /boot and use a
> little less than 10 MB
For what its worth.
AFAIK the reason why we ever needed a /boot partition was a way around lilo's
former limit of booting from a partition ( or i had better say) a kernel
image which was placed beyond the 1023 cylinder limit of old style BIOS's.
lilo does not have that limit anymore nor do most (i think i could say "all"
bios's) now a days. So what i am saying is the following.
Today we don't need a separate /boot partition, one may have there own reasons
for doing so, but linuxwise, there is no reason to have one thesedays because
the old <1023 cyl, limit is gone for ever.
> Regards
--
If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they
try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
is built on organized crime.
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-31 19:22 partitons and proper order mike
2004-10-31 20:02 ` Thorsten Alge
2004-10-31 22:14 ` mike
2004-10-31 22:39 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-11-01 2:45 ` mike
2004-11-01 5:18 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-11-01 7:07 ` Peter
2004-11-01 17:14 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-11-01 19:33 ` Richard Adams [this message]
2004-10-31 23:37 ` simon
2004-11-01 2:54 ` mike
2004-11-25 22:22 ` lindax newbie
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