Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/29/2008 10:43 AM, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
>>> Sorry... but that's just plain wrong.
>>>
>>> Maybe my use case is odd... but my /boot partition is a *MINIMUM* of 
>>> 5GB on all of my computers.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> 1.) I have a rescue image setup to boot if I need it...
>>> and
>>> 2.) I have a ghost image I made right after installing this version 
>>> of fedora.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why either of those should exist entirely in /boot. You 
>> are allowed further partitions. 
>
> Where else would they be better placed?
in /dev/sda2, also known as "hidden rescue partition".


> I have no desire to clutter my disk with endless numbers of partitions, 
indeed. only one additional partition is enough. and guess what ? that's 
what numberless laptop manufacturers do in order to store a ghost-ed 
backup of the main partition


> and placing them in the root partition is just plain stupid.
I agree with you here

> Again... where better to place the tools that can fix a broken system?
ughm ... did I mention /dev/sda2, also known as "hidden rescue partition" ?