[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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