From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Adams Subject: Re: partitons and proper order Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:33:12 +0100 Message-ID: <200411012033.12853.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> References: <20041101070754.CE0D9255BA@heisspf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041101070754.CE0D9255BA@heisspf> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs