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Re: partition layouts
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: partition layouts |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:02:52 +0200 |
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Vernon Mauery <address@hidden> writes:
> Putting a restraint that says /boot/grub must be a separate
> partition doesn't sound like a good idea. It just clutters the
> partition table with another small partition.
For the apple this was always the case already. It is something we
can not change.
> If all it gains us is that we know where we booted from, we still
> need to know where /boot is. I don't see what this gains us -- the
> root command or prefix variable is still required. It sounds to me
> that if you want to have a firmware native partition type, having
> all of /boot be that type would be preferred.
The discussion is about automatically setting prefix.
--
Marco