GAH! Kernel release 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 caused me problems!

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Dec 14 23:21:58 UTC 2005


Daniel B. Thurman writes:

> I have everything installed in a single large partition.  Why is it,
> that this was not a problem in the previous releases until now?  Why

Because your previous kernels' images happen to exist on the disk below the 
BIOS server's limit.

> the requirement that /boot be in it's own partition?  This makes no
> real sense to me

That makes perfect sense.  This is the only way to guarantee that the 
individual files on those partitions will not fall outside of the 
BIOS-imposed limit.

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