[ILUG] Boot partition too small - need grub advice

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:37:12PM +0900 or thereabouts, Josh Glover wrote:
> 2008/6/17  <paul at clubi.ie>:
> 
> > Even better, not having /boot mounted means your package management system
> > will write to your / partition when it next updates your kernel package.
> 
> If you don't know that your PMS is updating your kernel package and
> can thus mount /boot for it to write to, you will likely have bigger
> problems that a failed kernel update.
> 
> Binary distros that auto-brick your machine are not so much fun. At
> the very least, they should provide some facility for you to keep the
> currently working, known-good kernel around as a fail-safe.

In my experience, when a PMS updates the kernel package, it installs it
alongside the existing kernel and that the default behaviour for yum or apt
is not to update the kernel at all.

Conor
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