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[Robert Huff]

Pietro Cerutti writes:

>  > There's no need for a boot partition; that's a Linux practice.
>  
>  You're right, but I don't feel it as a bad practice... mounting it
>  read-only could prevent from many problems, don't you think?

	Could, yes.  In practice ... never had it happen to me.  I've
screwed up the boot code, but not in ways haveing a seperate
partition would have stopped.  Can't remember anyone else finding it
useful either.
	I'm also curious as to whether having the boot code on a
non-root filesystem even works.


				Robert Huff