On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 13:21, Martin Frost wrote: > 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? Not really anymore. GRUB "knows" about filesystems and can read directly from a filesystem, unlike LILO, which had to access the kernel's disk blocks by byte offset (which is where the 2G limit came from). Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley@xxxxxxxxxxx Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * * QCSNet http://www.qcsn.com * * * * T1, Frame Relay, DSL, Dial-up, and Web Hosting * * * *
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