On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Daniel B. Thurman writes:
I have everything installed in a single large partition. Why is it,
that this was not a problem in the previous releases until now? Why
Because your previous kernels' images happen to exist on the disk below the
BIOS server's limit.
the requirement that /boot be in it's own partition? This makes no
real sense to me
That makes perfect sense. This is the only way to guarantee that the
individual files on those partitions will not fall outside of the
BIOS-imposed limit.
OK, I just got stunned by this. I'm not making /boot partitions since I
started using grub. I always that the grub could manage anyway with
kernels installed beyond the cylinder 1024.
How bad am I without /boot partition on a, say, P4 Xeon on an Intel
motherboard (bought a couple on months ago) with 2 SATA discs of 200GB?
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