Question

[Richard Rudnick]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:53 +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Richard Rudnick <rich at aphroneo.net> wrote:
> >
> >  On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:48 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> >
> >  > sda2/u = /BOOT Ubuntu, shareable with more Linux'es !?
> >
> >  I would suggest not using a separate boot partition. Grub can find
> >  kernels in more than one place (that is, a boot directory under each
> >  os's root). If you have a 64bit processor and would like to have both
> >  32bit and 64bit Ubuntu's installed you must do this, since the kernel's
> >  for both have the same name.
> 
> Hmm, are you then going to have the boot directory under the root
> directory in the root partition for the OS installation?
> 

Exactly. Each os will have it's own /boot this way. I used to use
a /boot partition when I needed it at the front of the disk for lilo;
since I've switched to grub it's not necessary. And, since the kernel is
integral to the base os it makes sense to back it up with /lib/modules
these days.