Re: /boot

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:45:37PM +0000, Stuart Brady wrote:
> If sda1 is mounted on /boot and it is empty, then yes, that's bad.  If I
> understand correctly, --init-partition formats the partition, and as a
> result, clears any files that were it previously held...

correct

> If that's right, it's better to pass --init-partition to palo, than it
> is to add --init-partition in palo.conf, since you won't have to worry
> about changing it back afterwards.

Yes - palo.conf should have --update-partition in it by default.
(any Debian-installer folks noting this?)

> You'll have to copy the files from /boot again (using /mnt for sda1,
> making sure you've unmounted /boot first).

*nod*

grant