[99352] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RAH 5.2 - Some Probes/Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Fri Nov 13 16:33:35 1998
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:21:48 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:32:03 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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elazor@hcs.state.or.us said:
> Out of curiosity, why setup a separate /boot partition?
> -Ed
The usual reason is if there are cylinder count problems with the drive,
ie some part of the / partition would lie above the 1023 cylinder point.
Obviously not sure why he chose to do that, but one of my drives, even with
LBA working, has 1107 cylinders, and thus required some form of partitioning.
best
rickf
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