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Re: Reiserfs boot floppies for Debian?



Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes:

> /boot does not need to be on the root partition.  It just has to be somewhere
> that the bootloader can read from it.  

I follow ya.

> But just because lilo and grub handle large hard drives doesn't mean that a
> separate /boot partition has no place in the world.  For example, on my
> NetWinder, /boot is a small partition formatted to use old 2.0.x compatible
> ext2 options (since that is all that the Linux 2.0.x based netwinder firmware
> can read).  root ("/") lives on /dev/hda2, which is formatted to use all the
> nifty things ext2 can do these days, ensuring I get the most out of my warrenty
> voiding 20Gig drive,

Ok.  But there is no connection with use of RAID or reiserfs ?  Or is
there?

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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