On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition
>
> Why? Please elaborate.
even if you can boot, you do NOT have a root fs ..
( /etc /bin /sbin /lib /dev ... )
you can always use a fd or cd or network to boot
the system if the rootfs /etc /bin /sbin is working
without /boot
without a rootfs ... it is pointless to boot unless
the boot fd or boot cd has its own rootfs
( like an installer or standalone system like knoppix )
gazillion ways to boot a box
only one way to fix a dead linux install
- to get into single user mode
or boot a standalone system w/o needing the
dead/suspect hard disk
- a bad partition scheme will prevent you
from fixing your "disk gone bad" due to
corruptions in ext2/ext3/reiserfs/etc
partition scheme is important if you dont want to lose
your user data in say /home
- user configs in /etc is easy to save onto floppy
c ya
alvin
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