partitioning new installation

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 13 20:43:03 UTC 2006


On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 06:16:48PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I wasn't aware that newer machines didn't require /boot...

The point of /boot has usually been one of:

Your bios only supports 1024 cylinders, or 504M or 2G or 8G or some
other limit on what it can access.  Since the boot loaded uses the bios
to read the disk, you are limited to whatever the bios can address.
Having a small partition in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk solved
the problem since the boot loader reads all it's files from /boot which
is in the readable range, and hence you boot.  Once the kernel is loaded
it takes over from the bios and can read everything.

The other reason is to have a non LVM partition to load from in order to
have / on LVM.

If you don't need either of those, you don't need /boot.

Len Sorensen
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