Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and 
> > dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam 
> > trains, when PC BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a 
> > partition extending beyond the first 1024 cylinders.
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> Saying that is as if the politicians say that there is no need for 
> protection or that your job and savings are secure :-P
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> The theory is that you do not need a separate boot partition. However... 
> the truth is that in some scenarios it does help, and my xtall ball 
> tells me this /may/ be one of those cases.
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> - -- Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.

Worth a try, using parted and squeezing /dev/sdb3 as /boot.
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Thandk and Regards
Sid.

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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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