Paul on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:19:26 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition


gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

As for why that's /boot, it's to ensure that if you can boot at all,
you can get to grub's configuration (recall that bootloaders must
be installed under the 1024th cylinder of your hard drive because of
the broken IA32 design).

I don't think the 1024 limit exists anymore.

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