On 4/24/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A /boot partition is not required, > but there is an overwhelmingly strong reason for having one > on a dual boot system. Other than LVM I'm not sure what that is? > If you don't, and something goes wrong when updating Fedora > you are in a mess, > as the grub files will not be available. > I'm not sure how it would make a difference if you weren't using LVM? If your grub information was on a EXT3 /boot or EXT3 / partition, I would imagine that either configuration is equally susceptible to problems with update errors or whatnot. Any grub or kernel update has to write to /boot/grub regardless of what partition it resides ... or am I missing something? -Mauriat
