[clue-tech] Partition madness

[David L. Anselmi]

Collins Richey wrote:
[...]
> It's a good idea to have a boot partition at the start of the disk if
> you have only one disk and you like to screw around with the remaining
> partitions.

I've never bothered with a separate boot partition (and only ever met 
one person who had a good reason for one).

If you rearrange things frequently it could be helpful to have /boot on 
a primary partition (doen't matter which, if you can keep from changing it).

Otherwise the only requirement is that /boot (your kernel, actually) be 
on part of the disk the BIOS can access, because the boot loader uses 
BIOS calls to read the kernel (and initrd, maybe) off the disk.  The 
kernel doesn't use the BIOS for disk access.

Dave
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