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[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Is having a small /boot partition out of favor now?
> >
> > I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread.  I still use one when I
> > setup multiboot.  But I'm normally doing windows and one or two suse
> > versions.  I have not ever installed Ubuntu or Fedora.
> I thought that was only needed for really old bioses. I haven't done
> this in ages.

I do it because it isolates the boot logic from the distros.  So if I
decide to blow away a distro, I just do it, then clean things up in my
/boot partition.

If I had several distros installed and a /boot on everyone it seem
more difficult to experiment, but I have never tried that.

Greg
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