Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Cliff Sarginson <cliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:26:37PM -0700, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Simon Oliver wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> That all depends on your lilo.conf (assuming you use lilo as your boot
> loader).  Check your previous /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf.
> ----------------->>>>
> fstab does not have reference to /boot only lilo does.  I changed the fstab
> of the new root system and update lilo to include a new entry I called
> newroot.  My question was if Linux needs /boot as a mount point.  I guess I
> should just try it and see.
> 
A mount point is just a directory.
Conventionally people store kernel images and associated
files in /boot .. if it isn't being used as a mount point
for a seperate boot fs, then it is just used as an ordinary
directory would be.
One of the reasons is that until recently and only with recent
versions of lilo and PC bios's the boot files had to be in the
first physical sectors of the disk. So people installing linux
would tend to create a file system for /boot as the first
on the disk, making it about 12-15MB in size.

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Regards
Cliff