-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-05-09 at 16:46 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Traditionally a separate boot partition is a good thing, and more so in special cases like raid or lvm. I'm not surprised that the installer asks for one.
I think the requirements for having a separate /boot partition have mostly gone away. LILO used to have a limitation that meant /boot had to be within the first 1024 cylinders, but AFAIK that was lifted long ago. I also used to setup a separate /boot partition, but I've recently stopped doing that. My machines are all RAID1 only, though not necessarily software RAID.
Hardware raid is different: if it is real hardware raid, it is completely transparent to the software. For software raid, the kernel and modules needed to access the raid have to be accesable before the system is running and the raid itself mounted. If it is raid 1 it could be possible to read it directly, as each side is complete. But if it is raid 5, that is not the case: thus I believe you need a separate /boot for raid 5, and I think I read it was necessary for LVM, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJGe+tTMYHG2NR9URAri7AJ9K+VhJzh+G5iDvTyPh0eWl+Qj3KQCaAvSE hsst7uJUdql1sAd03duQDhA= =I9cD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org