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

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Subject: Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:21:29 -0700
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 07:08, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:
> Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/"
> partition)?

LILO can't see anything past the 1024th cylinder.  If you don't use LILO, this 
isn't a problem for you.

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