[H-GEN] altering disk partitions
David Seikel
won_fang at yahoo.com.au
Tue Mar 18 21:21:39 EST 2003
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--- Russell Stuart <russell at stuart.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> 2. Now that there are rescue CD's the very good argument of having
> a separate /boot so you can at least boot the thing if something
> goes badly wrong no longer applies. Its faster, easier, and
> safer to boot off a CD.
The usual reason for having a seperate /boot, and having it in the first
2GB of the first disk, is brain dead BIOS's that couldn't otherwise boot
your OS.
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