> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 02 Aug 2002 14:58:40 -0400 > > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 14:41, Wil Cooley wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 05:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > for reasons that escape me at the moment, the new red hat limbo > > > recommends 75M for /boot -- apparently, there's something else > > > that will potentially reside there, but i don't recall what it is. > > The reason we bumped the warning level for /boot is that over the span > of a release cycle, there will be a number of kernel errata released. > And since up2date doesn't actually remove old kernels, it's better to > make sure you have some extra room there. Also, the UML kernel is about > 30 megs, so it takes a significant chunk of space if you install it. > > The 20 meg part is just a warning to help people from shooting > themselves in the foot for later. /boot on my laptop is only 24 megs so > it's definitely not a hard requirement :-) So does every machine *need* a separate /boot partition?? Is the problem that the booting kernel has to sit in the first 2 GB of disk space? Martin
