partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On February 3, 2005 19:45, Anton Markov wrote:
> 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.

... which I do:) There are situations, like with colocated servers, where 
popping in Knoppix and rebooting from the CD is not an option.
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