Re: LI on boot
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:05:32 -0500
> From: Tom Pfeifer <tplists@optonline.net>
> To: Debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: LI on boot
> Resent-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:05:39 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> The /boot partition was only needed when you either had a BIOS that
> could not access the entire drive, or if you had an older version of
> Lilo that couldn't. In that case you would put the /boot partition near
> the beginning of the drive - the part that could be accessed - in order
> to get the Linux kernel loaded. Once the kernel took over, it could then
> access the entire disk.
>
> The versions of Lilo in both Woody and Sarge do not require a /boot
> partition for this purpose. Grub never did as far as I know. I guess
> some people still like to have a /boot partition for other reasons...
>
> Tom
>
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for info
/ernst-magne
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