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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 16:26 -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> 
> --- 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.
> 
> 
> Only if you've got very old hardware, right?

Exactly.  Lilo fixed that 6 years ago, in version 21.4.

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