Is having a small /boot partition out of favor now?
I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread. I still use one when I setup multiboot. But I'm normally doing windows and one or two suse versions. I have not ever installed Ubuntu or Fedora. I thought that was only needed for really old bioses. I haven't done this in ages.
I do it because it isolates the boot logic from the distros. So if I decide to blow away a distro, I just do it, then clean things up in my /boot partition.
If I had several distros installed and a /boot on everyone it seem more difficult to experiment, but I have never tried that. For my personal use, I just use a single partition for each install. I
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 17:07, Greg Freemyer