Am Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:37:23 -0700
schrieb L A Walsh
What were the reasons for boot being separate?
To make sure that directory can be assigned to a mount point, which points to a disk partition that is fully accessible by incapable BIOS and/or hardware implementations. As you may remember, back in the days the BIOS block interface could access only a small part of a potentially large disk. These days are gone. Otherwise we would not be able to boot from disk today. The kernel will end up anywhere in the range of what can be described by a MBR partition entry. You may have noticed, YaST does not propose a partition for /boot anymore since more than a decade.
How does Windows ...
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