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



On Saturday 08 April 2006 16:26, 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?

No idea.  I switched to Grub when it was a problem for me.

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