Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

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Subject: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?
From: "Masatran (Deepak), R." <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:38:35 +0530
Message-id: <[🔎] 20060408140835.GA18580@research.iiit.ac.in>

Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/"
partition)?

I have installed Debian 3.1 with a separate "/boot" partition. I intend
installing Ubuntu 5.10 . Should I share the "/boot" partition between Debian
and Ubuntu?
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http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/

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