Out of Space

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 06 August 2016 15:06:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 20:01:21 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > >/dev/sda1 ... /boot ... 2GB
> > 
> > I would add /boot to / and don't give it its own partition, so
> > required space is automatically allocated, if needed.
> 
> I disagree with that advice Ralf. I have had a newer kernel just
> installed, to be located far enough into the disk that the bios could
> not reach it to boot it.

Very strange. I have a test partition on this machine which is located 
about 1100 GB from the MBR and I had never any problems starting a 
kernel from that partition.

As I understand it, the location of the kernel was important in the 
early days of Linux when we used LILO (and disk space was counted in MB, 
not GB/TB). Nowadays the kernel is loaded by GRUB2 which reads the file 
system and should find the kernel at any position on the disk [1]. I 
would assume there was something else broken when you thought it was the 
location of the kernel.


Nils

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB#GRUB_version_2_.28GRUB.29>