On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old
BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part
of the
I doubt it. I still do it, though, from tradition I guess.
There may be good reason for it still in terms of security. /boot
doesn't need to be mounted on a running system. I'm not sure if that
adds a lot of security though.
I'm thinking no. To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root
privileges, and if you have that, you can do 'mount /boot'.
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