[BBLISA] /boot

[Brian O'Neill]

Tom Metro wrote:
> So for the time being, on any machine made within the last 4 or 5 years, 
> capacity limits shouldn't be a motivation for using a /boot partition.
> 
> However, a /boot partition can have other advantages. If you plan to use 
> something a bit out of the ordinary for your root file system, keeping 
> /boot separate and using a common file system insures that it'll be 
> easily accessible from a rescue CD.
> 
>  -Tom
> 

I also seem to recall that at least GRUB is unable to boot off certain 
partition/file system/software RAID types - for instance, you couldn't 
have /boot on an LVM volume or a RAID stripe. I think GRUB has been 
updated for it, but none of the distributions I use seem to make use of it.

-Brian