Not always.... My server would not boot it 250Gb HDD, but by altering the HDDs jumpers, the machine could be fooled into thinking that it was a 32Gb disk, and would then boot up, where upon the unseen reality's like the final 200GB+ /home partition could be used by etch. A separate /boot partition was essential in fooling the machine that the HDD i chose was well within its BIOS support. Or so i'm told by the clever bastard that set it up for me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:19, Nick Rout wrote: A separate /boot is a moot point, probably not necessary