Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-16 06:17 (UTC-0500): > On 05/15/2017 02:06 PM, deloptes wrote:
>> I wouldn't use dedicated boot partition in your case. For testing >> you can leave all on one partition. If you use dedicated boot >> partition and want to share it among different installs - watch out >> to not format it ... and you must keep all your kernels+initrd there. > I'm unclear as to "dedicated boot partition" above. > My typical install procedure results in a directory structure as below: > richard@stretch-2nd:/$ dir > bin etc initrd.img.old media proc sbin tmp vmlinuz > boot home lib mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old > dev initrd.img lost+found opt run sys var > Are you referring to the "boot" in that list? > I've may have been a computer *user* for a half-century. > But I have little formal background ;} "Dedicated boot partition" normally refers to the boot directory you see in your dir output having a filesystem mounted to it in /etc/fstab. It doesn't have to be so. I have dedicated boot partitions, meaning FOSS native filesystem primary partition on each BIOS disk 0, with Grub installed on it that I manage entirely myself, and which I do *not* mount to /boot/, in order to maintain exclusive control of it on PCs with as many as 40 installed operating systems. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
