Take the 2-minute tour ×  A fair while ago (~ 2004) I was told
to always create a separate partition for the boot directory.
And since then I always have. But after reading a few questions
about partitioning questions, I'm curious. Do I still need a
/boot partition?  Note: If helpful, I'm dual booting (Win XP or
7) & Ubuntu 10.04. I also have one partition (using ext2/3)
which I use to share files between the two operating systems.
share|improve this question add comment  3 Answers  up vote 18
down vote accepted  If you don't use LVM, root volume
encryption, software RAID, etc., and otherwise just have your
root volume on a plain-jane filesystem with no intermediate
layers, then you don't need it.  Really, the most important
files in booting are the kernel image (vmlinuz) and the
initramfs image (initrd.img). If both of those (and the GRUB
configuration files) are accessible by GRUB with no special
handling, then a separate /boot volume is not necessary.
share|improve this answer My question is probably eno