20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
12:49
On Thursday 20 June 2002 11:46, Ben Jones wrote:
No - IIRC, the only real reason for a boot partition, was to ensure it was below the 1024th cylinder. Older bios/lilo constraints meant you couldn't boot from a partition beyond this. SuSE (rightly) assumes that many of their users will dual-boot, so having a ~20meg partiton made sense. Newer pc's do not have the same restriction, so it is no longer there by default. I still have one out of habit... don't think there's any real benefit anymore though.
I somewhat remember that if I used '/' and '/home' with reiserfs, than I better used '/boot' with ext2. Is this still valid for SuSE 8.0? I put my '/boot' partition at the very end of the hd (hda4).