[GLLUG] /boot on /dev/hda

[Derek Engi]

At times, ive just not had a dedicated /boot partition, It's mainly for
reduncdancy, if something messes up on the boot partition, you can still
recover data.

As for dual booting, especially with newer distros, the need for a
seperate partition is less and less.  On my laptop, I have Windows Xp on
/dev/hda1, and fedora core on hda2 and swap on hda3.  At home, windows
on hda, fedora on hdb, and blank fat storage on hdc.  Works great.

Derek

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:47, Scott Harrison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there still a need to have /boot on /dev/hda
> (especially on the first portions of /dev/hda)?
> 
> Is this "need" (which I have encountered by
> experience over the years, RTFM, etc) due
> to dinosaur hardware or due to ancient
> (and since improved) boot loaders, distros, kernels, etc?
> 
> All this assumes that master boot record is
> configured to point to grub, etc.  Specifically,
> I am interested to hear if Mandrake 10.0 works
> fairly robustly for dual boot solutions where
> everything (including /boot) is on /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc,
> or /dev/hdd.
> 
> Just hoping somebody can jog my memory, shed some
> light, and all the kewl things some of you out
> there take time to do.
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> 
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