Richard Gooch wrote:
> And hard-code a test in init/main:init() to test for /boot/System.map
> and call BUG() if found. This would probably clean up most bad
> practice since many/most distribution installers are sufficiently
> braindamaged to put /boot on /.
>
> If they wise up and start making /boot a separate partition, we can
> add a similar test to do_mount().
And this is true for all cases? I don't think it's very nice to dictate partitioning
policy from the kernel. I'm rather sure that there are several valid reasons for
putting /boot on the root partition.
-d
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