[PLUG] boot partition???

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Sat Oct 4 07:13:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Brian Quade wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good reason to boot from a seperate partition,
> or why this seems to be only a Red Hat idea?

It's a workaround for older BIOSes that can't boot from high-numbered
cylinders on large hard drives. What Red Hat's installer does is make
sure that /boot is the first partition, guaranteeing that the boot
loader can find the kernel. For an explanation, see the LDP's Large
Disk HOWTO:

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html

If your hardware/BIOS is reasonably recent, it's not an issue.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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