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




--- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Johnson
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Only if you've got very old hardware, right?



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