On 12/13/05, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Pietro Cerutti writes:
>
> >  > There's no need for a boot partition; that's a Linux practice.
> >
> >  You're right, but I don't feel it as a bad practice... mounting it
> >  read-only could prevent from many problems, don't you think?
>
>         Could, yes.  In practice ... never had it happen to me.  I've
> screwed up the boot code, but not in ways haveing a seperate
> partition would have stopped.  Can't remember anyone else finding it
> useful either.

Neither I...

>         I'm also curious as to whether having the boot code on a
> non-root filesystem even works.
>

I too, but I won't be the one who will try it!


>
>                                 Robert Huff
>

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