Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Mon Dec 29 08:05:16 UTC 2008


Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>> 2008/12/17 Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de>:
>>   
>> /boot is a 100-200 MB partition on many machines. 
>
>> ...there's just no sense supporting /boot on anything
>> other than a 100-200 MB ext2 or ext3 volume.
>>   
> Sorry... but that's just plain wrong.
>
> Maybe my use case is odd... but my /boot partition is a *MINIMUM* of 
> 5GB on all of my computers.
>
> Why?
>
> 1.) I have a rescue image setup to boot if I need it...
> and
> 2.) I have a ghost image I made right after installing this version of 
> fedora.
>

I don't see why either of those should exist entirely in /boot. You are 
allowed further partitions. Nothing in /boot should remain relevant 
after we get a proper kernel in memory and enough modules to read the 
rest of the disk.

--CJD




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