Out of Space

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On So, 2016-08-07 at 22:27 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> 
> 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].

well, "nowadays" you would probably also just be clever enough to use a
GPT and not have to deal with stuff like primary or extended partitions
...
MSDOS partition tables are an anachronism from the last century ...

;)

ciao
	oli
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