-=> Kai Richter wrote to Gert Andersen <=-

 KR> Just ignore comments that were done without knowledge about your system
 KR> configuration. There are good reasons for seperate /boot partitions.
 KR> Some older BIOS based machines can't boot too big harddisks without it.

Yep, there's been a number of machines that I've run over the years which
depended on a /boot partition at the start of the disk.  Disks larger than the
BIOS could handle were pretty common over the years.


... Is fire supposed to shoot out of it like that!?
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