Hello Tony,

On 21 Oct 16 07:14, Tony Langdon wrote to Kai Richter:

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

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

If I remember right, both Gentoo and Arch Linux install instructions for
non-UEFI systems still suggest creating a /boot partition.

Regards,
Nick

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