partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[Anton Markov]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On February 3, 2005 12:07, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>>There is no need for a seperate /boot on any modern PC.  Only back when
>>there was trouble with 512, 2G or 8G drives did you really need one when
>>using a drive larger than that.  Any machine built in the last 5 years
>>should certainly work fine without it (heck my 1992 486 with a 95 BIOS
>>works with drives up to 137G without a /boot)
> 
> 
> I like the idea of isolating the kernel(s) on a separate partition and having 
> it nomount and ext2. In the event of a dirty shutdown, that which is not 
> mounted is not likely to get corrupted.

Hmm, but the kernel won't do you much good if your 'init' program, for 
example, is corrupted (I've had it happen). In that case you may want to 
keep a copy of a known good root partition (my root partition is only 
about 500MB) on a seperate, nomount partition. That way if something is 
wrong, you can select an alternate entry in your boot loader and boot away.

Personally, I prefer to keep a Knoppix CD handy. If something goes 
wrong, I boot from the CD, chroot into my old system, reinstall / 
recover from backups the kernel and anything else I need to boot, 
reboot, and the system is back online.


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