-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:30:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >If /boot has not enough space to hold at least the new kernel files, > >do you really need a separate /boot partition? You could modify > >/etc/fstab of your RHL 7.1 to not mount a separate /boot partition and > >move the directory onto your /-partition where you should have no > >space problems. > > I'm interested in this solution. Can I have more info?? With GRUB and modern computers (BIOS and hard disk drives support LBA) you don't need a separate partition for the /boot directory anymore. The installer would install happily into the /boot directory on the root partition. The original poster referred to an _upgrade_. If you wanted to prepare your system, which has a separate small /boot partition, for an upgrade, you would drop/move the /boot directory before the upgrade. > eg : > > cd /usr > mkdir /usr/boot > > vi /etc/fstab > > /boot /usr/boot defaults etc > > something like that??? Sort of (assuming partition labels): # umount /boot # mkdir /tmp/boot # mount -L /boot /tmp/boot # cp -a /tmp/boot/* /boot # umount /tmp/boot # cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak # grep -v /boot /etc/fstab.bak > /etc/fstab [for that to still boot, you would need to rewrite the bootloader with changed configuration in /boot/grub/grub.conf to reflect the changed GRUB root-partition, i.e. update the "root (hd?,?)" parameter and add /boot in front of /vmlinuz* and /initrd* lines] - -- Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/g9SX0iMVcrivHFQRAoX5AJ9WhAUZMfZU09U03B+7O3ZCmleY5ACgiF/o x810CiYmvmAQv9eFlY5OAQc= =u6XX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
