babu walad wrote:
Hi,
I noticed when I installed 7.1 SuSE wanted a separate /boot partition (besides / and swap) by default.
However, with SuSE 8.0, it seems it not longer defaults to creaet a separate /boot partition.
In fact, when I installed 8.0 I did not bother with a separate /boot partition, but did create /usr, /home, etc...
Am I missing something here?
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. /ben