Installation question, how to install /boot on a different drive from the rest?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sat Apr 3 15:49:24 UTC 2021


On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:46:18AM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:25:00 +0100
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to do this with the standard installer?
> > 
> > I need to install /boot on an old spinning hard disk but want
> > everything else (i.e. the OS itself and probably /home as well) on a
> > different drive.  Does the partitioning section of the standard
> > installer allow one to do this?
> > 
> 
> Yes: but why. /boot takes up only 200 - 250 mb?
> 
Because I want / on a disk that the BIOS can't see which is much
faster than the old spinning hard disk that the BIOS can see.

-- 
Chris Green




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