On 10/23/2011 11:22 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/23/2011 07:57 AM, Miguel Cardenas wrote: >> I would like to keep simple my disk, and reading the Fedora installation >> guide found that there are only 3 partitions required, SWAP, BOOT (ext3) >> and ROOT / (ext3)... I still don't like the idea of an independent boot >> partition but let's do it in the Fedora way... so, I want to know if >> this layout may work for me... I want to ask before doing it to save >> hours of installation just to try and see the results... > You only need a /boot partition if root is ext4, because legacy grub > doesn't grok it. If you only use ext3, you can get away with two > partitions: / and swap. (I have a separate /home, but no /boot.) I have found for ext3 that if the contents of /boot was modified in any way, it can affect whether or not the bootloader could boot off of /boot partition. My advice is to use /boot for ext3 & ext4. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
