"Brian T. Brunner" <brian.t.brunner at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)