On 03/04/2012 12:26 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > You also used to run into a problem with some older BIOS where you > needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the > BIOS could read it... In fact, this is the main reason for a separate /boot partition. Once the BIOS code was updated to handle larger drives there wasn't any need for it.