On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 02:41 GMT, Tom Vier penned: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: >> Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do >> you like a seperate boot partition? > > yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. > Odd. I use lilo on unstable, and look at what mount says: /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) -- monique