On Monday 06 of June 2005 3:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, > is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, > other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for > people with very large root partitions??
A good reason may be security. On some boxes, I have a /boot on separate device, actually a flash disk (compact flash card on one and IDE flash disk on others), and since the flash can be physically locked against write with a jumper, without opening the box the kernel cannot be changed. That means my firewall is allways running only code I intended it to run, among others. Another good reasons are disaster recovery scenario, or a migration of the whole system to the biger disc, or booting several different linux distros or distro versions on the top of single custom kernel (good for developers for library compatibility tests). Petr Kocmid -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
