В Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:58:35 +0100
Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 07:20 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Christopher Myers wrote:
Just out of curiosity -
In the past it was usually recommended to have a separate /boot partition, and for that partition to be the first one of the disk. However, I've noticed that in openSuSE 13.2 and SLES 12 that the default now is to not create this partition, and to instead install the bootcode into "/" directly, with /boot being a subfolder of the root partition.
Has something changed with regards to "best practices," or is there another reason that this is the default now?
ISTR that way back in time, boot loaders had trouble reading past the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. That limitation was lifted long ago, but having a separate /boot partition was a way of working around it.
What you wrote is _ONE_ reason for having /boot on a separate partition. The 1024 cylinder limitation is indeed a old relic.
However, there is still a good reason for doing so: If you need full disk encryption (as in: root + swap), you still need /boot in an unencrypted area, because grub needs access to the kernel and initrd
grub2 used in 13.2 may be able to read it (it supports LUKS encryption). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org