On 10/23/2011 12:15 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I have found for ext3 that if the contents of /boot was modified
in any way, it can affect whether or not the bootloader could
boot off of /boot partition. My advice is to use /boot for ext3& ext4.
Thank you, that's nice to know. I stay out of /boot at all times unless
I have no choice, such in tweaking the timeout in grub.conf, and I've
never had the slightest trouble with it. I do have a separate /boot
partition on my laptop, but / there is ext4.