Am 04.03.2012 21:48, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/04/2012 12:26 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You also used to run into a problem with some older BIOS where you >> needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the >> BIOS could read it... > > In fact, this is the main reason for a separate /boot partition. > Once the BIOS code was updated to handle larger > drives there wasn't any need for it. until the next updat elike ext4 will arrive remeber it was NOT possible to boot from ext4 while it was already stable, at this time it was really simply convert / and data while keep /boot to ext2 not all you can do is really smart over the long
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