December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
/boot is the place where your kernel and bootloader, initial RAM disk, and important files required for booting the system are stored. Any unintented change in these files will lead to the system becoming unbootable:

Having /boot in a separate partition allows us to encrypt other partitions as if we only have a single partition, then you cannot encrypt it; otherwise, it will be unable to boot.
The reason is kernel and initial ram disk bootloader are loaded first when the system boots, and then the encryption-decryption-related processes are started.
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