Re: Grub

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:38:46PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:30:57AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > No, that's what the symlinks are for.
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda1
> boot
> 
> isn't so bad.

Exactly. And since /vmlinuz.old will always be valid, you can
add this to your menu file.

Daniel's example was made much more extreme by using an extremely
long devfs path to his root partition, while root=/dev/hda3
would have worked just as well. Still, I suppose it is much
c00ler.

Hamish
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