On 2021/04/13 04:23, Olaf Hering wrote:
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.
So /boot can be on an LVM/MDRAID/encrypted partition and its fully supported by SUSE?
You may have noticed, YaST does not propose a partition for /boot anymore since more than a decade.
I haven't noticed, actually, I don't reinstall that often.
How does Windows ... Yes, I'm sure there are other shocking stories around that or any other unrelated topic. Please, consider the target audience of a potential reply.
Unrelated? It's on the same HW, if another OS doesn't need a ramdisk, why should linux? I.e. linux needs a ram disk about as much as it needs a floppy to boot. Believe it or not, people do look at usability issues when comparing Windows and Linux. Linux shouldn't require any more hoops to run than Windows, yet the user-grief level on linux is ignored on every update. Before Win10, you didn't really hear about something breaking every week like you do with TW, for example.