Installation question, how to install /boot on a different drive from the rest?

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 3 Apr 2021 11:46:18 -0300 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:25:00 +0100
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to do this with the standard installer?
> > 
> > I need to install /boot on an old spinning hard disk but want
> > everything else (i.e. the OS itself and probably /home as well) on a
> > different drive.  Does the partitioning section of the standard
> > installer allow one to do this?
> > 
> 
> Yes: but why. /boot takes up only 200 - 250 mb?

Guessing: limitiations of the BIOS?

> 

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