Why not put whole root there? As I said, in all these years I've never seen a reason for separate /boot and nobody was able to convince me otherwise. As far as kernel location goes it doesn't matter where it is as long as you point to it correctly. Root partitions are small and give you basic tools you need to boot in single mode. /boot by itself is useless and I had to fix many systems that others have installed with separate /boot partition but could not boot up. BIOS limitaion is long time gone so there is no need for bootup kludges in systems with new motherboards anymore. On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:51:40PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Mainly I put /boot on a separate partition, and put that partition > within the first 1024 cylinders, to work around BIOSes that cannot > boot images above that point. For this application, it would have the > extra advantage of making your kernel images equally available from > whatever distribution you're running at the time. For example, you > could run lilo from any of them. > > - Jim Van Zandt > > > >From: "Rafael Skodlar,,," <raffi@linwin.com> > >Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com > >Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:55:19 -0700 > > > >On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 12:02:31PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > >> > >> Michael - > >> > >> Yes, you can run multiple Linux distributions on the same machine. I > >> did this for a while. Put these on separate partitions, which are > >> shared by all the distributions: > >> > >> /boot > > > >I don't understand why somebody need /boot, that's a separate partition > >for the kernel and few related files. It makes more sense to keep /boot > >in root partition which, in case of any problems, makes system bootable > >to the point you can run some diagnostics and file repair. /boot by > >itself never proved usefull since I started using Linux in 1994. I > >discourage anybody from creating /boot including default configurations > >in some distributions. > > > >With cheap disk drives it's easier to install different distributions on > >different drives. > > > >one way I'm doing it is using removable cartridges (Syquest 1.5 GB) and > >mount /home form the main disk drive. > > > >> /home > >> /usr/local (or else make it a symbolic link to /home/local) > >> swap > >> > >> Each distribution will mount the above, so you will have the same > >> environment. Make a separate root partition for each distribution. > >> These should be big because they will contain /dev, /etc, /usr, /var, > >> and several others. Each distribution will have its own installed > >> packages. > >> > >> You can use a different boot floppy for each distribution. If you use > >> LILO, I think you can put a "root=" statement in the description > >> section for each image. > >> > >> - Jim Van Zandt > >> > >> > >> >From: "Michael Weaver" <drwho1@btinternet.com> > >> >Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:19:00 +0100 > >> > > >> >Hi! > >> >Can you run multiple distros of Linux on one PC? > >> >Do you have to re-partition the hard drive for each one? > > > >-- > >Rafael -- Rafael