Ubuntu Preseed Raid 1 with multiple partitions

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2013 22:43, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It shouldn't make a difference these days but I'd choose to have
>> "/boot" be a primary partition and be the first partition.
>
> I used to do that, certainly, 10-15 years ago when it was needed.
>
> The main raison d'etre for /boot is that in the old days, the kernel
> had to be located entirely within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk
> or the first (32MB|512MB) depending on BIOS.
>
> This is no longer the case, so there is now no need for a separate
> /boot. You cannot boot a system from a functioning /boot alone - you
> need / as well.

IIRC, it was a LILO problem.

Anyway, old habits die hard and I still do this...