Out of Space
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Sun Aug 7 20:27:18 UTC 2016
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>
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