"Brian T. Brunner" brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
If you have a separate boot partition, I'd not only suggest making it a primary partition for the same reason, but also mounting it read-only for oops-protection.
That's probably the greatest advantage of a separate /boot partition. If I want to absolutely guarantee a bootable kernel, a separate /boot unmounted or mounted read-only is highly recommended.