On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:36:38PM +0100, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > >> why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? > >> what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? > >> > >> > > Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own filesystem. > > > > > I'd think most people with that setup have /boot/boot symlinked to /boot ? > You can't do that becasue the first thing grub looks for is the boot/ directory on the "root" filesystem. If /boot is a separate partition, it is the first thing that grub sees, and so it looks for boot/ under it. When we mount it on /boot, it ends up looking to us (but not to grub) as /boot/boot. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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