[TriLUG] Boot "Partition" size

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:09 PM, John Vaughters via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> RHEL 5 - 100MB BootCentos 6 - 500MB Boot
> Centos 7 - 500MB BootFedora 21 - 500MB Boot
> I'm seeing a trend on RedHat streams.

The "/boot" partition size is/was limited by a number of complex
factors related to the Intel architecture: BIOS, MBR, disk cylinders,
partition type, bootloader (LILO/GRUB).

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33555/what-is-the-max-partition-supported-in-linux

Bill