Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:

> Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> writes:
> 
> > 	- /boot should NOT be a separate partition
> 
> Why? Please elaborate.

even if you can boot, you do NOT have a root fs ..
( /etc /bin /sbin /lib /dev ... )

you can always use a fd or cd or network to boot
the system if the rootfs /etc /bin /sbin is working
without /boot

without a rootfs ... it is pointless to boot unless
the boot fd or boot cd has its own rootfs 
( like an installer or standalone system like knoppix )

gazillion ways to boot a box

only one way to fix a dead linux install 
	- to get into single user mode
	or boot a standalone system w/o needing the 
	dead/suspect hard disk

	- a bad partition scheme will prevent you
	from fixing your "disk gone bad" due to
	corruptions in ext2/ext3/reiserfs/etc

partition scheme is important if you dont want to lose
your user data in say /home
	- user configs in /etc is easy to save onto floppy

c ya
alvin