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[Bill Anderson <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Vince L wrote:
>   
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 08:33, Matthew Stringer wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Can't you just do away with the partition? Unmount it move everything to
> > > the root filesystem but still under /boot, re-install grub & use Fdisk
> > > to change the boot flag over. Linux has not needed /boot on a separate
> > > partition for a long time now and using symlinks is messy.
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >     
> > >       
> > This assumes that / is on a primary partition. If not, it is no go.
> >   
> >     
> Since when does / have to be on a primary partition?  I have one system
> where it's on a LVM and another, RAID.
>
>   
Without involving LVM or RAID, I do not have any root partitions as a 
primary partition. The only primary partitions are /boot and swap. All 
root partitions are extended partitions, one for each distro with which 
I work. I have never had boot problems. I have had to develop my own 
system for managing between six and nine bootable kernels.

Bill Anderson
WW7BA
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