Question

[Karl Larsen]

Richard Rudnick wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:53 +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Richard Rudnick <rich at aphroneo.net> wrote:
>>     
>>>  On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:48 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
>>>
>>>  > sda2/u = /BOOT Ubuntu, shareable with more Linux'es !?
>>>
>>>  I would suggest not using a separate boot partition. Grub can find
>>>  kernels in more than one place (that is, a boot directory under each
>>>  os's root). If you have a 64bit processor and would like to have both
>>>  32bit and 64bit Ubuntu's installed you must do this, since the kernel's
>>>  for both have the same name.
>>>       
>> Hmm, are you then going to have the boot directory under the root
>> directory in the root partition for the OS installation?
>>
>>     
>
> Exactly. Each os will have it's own /boot this way. I used to use
> a /boot partition when I needed it at the front of the disk for lilo;
> since I've switched to grub it's not necessary.
    The reason it is not needed is due to the newer BIOS which can look 
into a giant hard drive now. But yes lilo had a problem that Grub fixed. 
In general Grub is an improvement.
>  And, since the kernel is
> integral to the base os it makes sense to back it up with /lib/modules
> these days.
>
> Yes back up the whole mess. I backup /home very often. The rest is a bi monthly event.
>   
Karl



-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7