Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS-7 on a new partition

Ted Miller wrote:

I have gotten in the habit of either creating or leaving unused some space on any disk that might be used as a boot disk, rather than committing all the space to LVM. That way I have something to work with if I need "yet another" boot partition.

A bit ignorant of me, but is there nowadays any restriction on the choice of boot partition? I don't use LVM (having had some catastrophes several years ago) and always create a small boot partition among the first 3 partitions: sda1 Windows (does MS still require this? sda2 /boot sda3 swap sda4 extended partition I guess this methodology is probably long extinct?