From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
Date: Sun Jul 1 17:33:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010701173250.F32297@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010702010835.A8909@niksula.hut.fi>; from jonas@berlin.vg on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:08:35AM +0300
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:08:35AM +0300, Jonas Berlin wrote:
> > > I.e. /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot
> > That solution will only work if grub follows symbolic links; I'm not sure if
> > that's the case. Have you tested this? I assume that with the symlink in place,
> > you'd move the grub directory out of /boot/boot and into /boot?
>
> That was the idea.
>
> Symlinks work in ext2 filesystems (mandrake uses /boot/vmlinuz as default
> image, which is a symlink to the kernel installed), but not on reiserfs (at
> least not in 0.5.95).
I think a cleaner solution would be to mount the boot partition at /mnt/boot by
default, and then have a /boot => /mnt/boot/boot symlink. Requires much less
hacking.
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-01 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-01 13:47 [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot Jonas Berlin
2001-07-01 15:40 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-07-01 16:10 ` Jonas Berlin
2001-07-01 17:33 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
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