Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ke, 2009-06-10 kello 15:21 -0400, John Moser kirjoitti: >> Every argument for putting Grub or the kernel on a separate partition >> has been based around the idea that these files are somehow more >> important than, say, /bin/sh > > Putting the kernel (i.e., /boot) on a separate partition is often > mandated by the BIOS not being able to read all of a large hard disk. I > have a motherboard from 2008 that has that problem, so it's not ancient > history, either.
Surely the BIOS doesn't actually have to be involved as long as the initial boot stage can find files anywhere on the disk. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
