On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs > > > > even if /boot is fine, if your "rootfs" is corrupt, you can't boot > > so there is no point to separating /boot ... we'll leave network boot, > > boooting off cd, and booting off usb stick for another ballgame > > Your analysis is correct. The only reason for having /boot on a > separate partition is as a work-around for the (historical) 1024 > cylinders / 504 MB limits of IDE. isn't busybox part of the initrd, can't you get you booting linux box to boot into busybox, thus all you need is a working /boot and a working kernel image and initrd. From here could rebuild/fix/investigate your system > > > /Allan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
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