[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

Fri Mar 28 20:59:39 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote
> 
> > I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot?
> 
> /boot is not required to be its own partition.  In the days of yore, when 
> BIOSes couldn't boot from partitions the crossed the 1024 cylinder 
> barrier, it made sense to have a small /boot as your first partition. 
> These days?  Not so much.

Ah, thanks. I was under the impression that anaconda required
a /boot, like anaconda requires a swap partition which makes it
hard if you want to setup a swapfile instead later during the
install.

I also use LVM for my installs, which I believe needs a /boot
since grub can't as of yet boot off of a LV (and forget it if
that LV's VG is on a MD), so I hadn't seen a kickstart that
didn't have a /boot.

-Ross

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