Updated boot loader (GRUB)
I regard "/boot" partitions as an abomination(*), and wish to avoid using them (and have done so very successfully for many years now). But I also want to make / an LVM2 volume in the future...and the archaic version of GRUB in RHEL 6.1 can't handle that. I saw GRUB 2.0 as a desired feature for Fedora-mumble (whatever is being developed right now), but it hasn't been commited yet. This needs to be a priority.
*my mantra for several years has been to simplify, simplify, simplify...and that's hard to do when you have extra partitions rattling around, with different volume types (LVM vs. non-LVM) and sometimes different file system types. The OS should be installable on a single file system (/), with the full features of the kernel supported (e.g. LVM, software RAID-1 if needed--though we always use hardware for RAID). Especially now in the days of virtualization when adding new PVs is trivial.
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Sounds like this is already in the works as Fedora is working on this for Fedora 16.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2
Hi
This will move /boot to boot partition [1]. The other reason being, poor support for encyrpted /boot ( assuming /boot resides on /, and / is encrypted ) .
On a side note, /boot on a different partition allows one to create a resuce mode which will most likely work even when / is borked.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_Boot_partition
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I tend to keep /boot as ext2 because I know the other filesystems are still being actively developed. I really don't want my /boot data fiddled with. Given the problems in the updates I've seen so far, the simple answer is to leave it simple.
I don't like single partition systems as users and their applications tend to junk up the system. We tend to install a strongly divided "this is the OS, this is your application" layout.
For RH7 I want to be able to build my filesystems like I want, with options for the different stable filesystem types and the freedom *not* to have to use some "advanced" filesystem type.
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