SSDs and HDDs

[J]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 February 2016 07:35:45 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:20:42 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
<SNIP>
>> That's good. I had the wrong impression /boot by default gets it's own
>> partition.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>
> Hi Ralf;
>
> That depends on the bios of that motherboard.  I have been forced to
> create and use a /boot partition as the FIRST patition on the disk by
> bios limitations, the reasoning being that most installers put the boot
> stuff on the disk last, presenting the spector of having the stuff
> needed to boot, too far into a big disk that particular bios never
> dreamed about, so the bios disk read calls needed to boot it, can't
> reach it, too far into the disk.
<SNIP>

FWIW, you need to have a separate /boot partition if your root
filesystem is on a software RAID setup as well.  I'm not sure if the
same applies to LVM or not (I don't believe it does).

Also, if you have a UEFI system you need to have a FAT32(vfat)
formatted partition for /boot/efi.

Jeff