SPECS (LINUX_2_6_8): kernel.spec - mount /boot in %pre

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:35:29PM +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> Elan =?iso-8859-2?q?Ruusam=E4e?= wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 December 2004 16:38, Paweł Sakowski wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if that's the right approach. If somebody mounts /boot ro,
> > > they usually do it for a reason and might not want it silently
> > > overridden by rpm scripts. Besides, if you change the disks mounted in
> > > %pre, you should roll it back in %post -- honour admin's decision of not
> > > having /boot mounted permanently.
> > >
> > > You need /boot mounted rw to install FHS, kernel and grub. You need /usr
> > > mounted rw to install virtually any package. An admin should know this.
> > the noauto for /boot is from gentoo world. they say it's for security and for 
> > system failures.
> 
> /boot is also required to be on fat, minix or old ext2 format patition for
> alpha with ARC loader. As other fs-es are unsupported by milo. While milo
> must be installed on fat or ntfs (NT 3.5) partotion.

And EFI-compliant machines (IA64, some IA32 - but I didn't see IA32 such yet)
need elilo on FAT partition.


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