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

[Martin Marques]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> 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.

OK, I just got stunned by this. I'm not making /boot partitions since I 
started using grub. I always that the grub could manage anyway with 
kernels installed beyond the cylinder 1024.

How bad am I without /boot partition on a, say, P4 Xeon on an Intel 
motherboard (bought a couple on months ago) with 2 SATA discs of 200GB?

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