* [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
@ 2001-07-01 13:47 Jonas Berlin
2001-07-01 15:40 ` Daniel Robbins
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From: Jonas Berlin @ 2001-07-01 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
To avoid this /boot/boot thing and still keep software that expect stuff to
be under /boot on the boot partition happy, I suggest the following setup:
ln -s /boot /boot/boot
I.e. /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
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
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From: Daniel Robbins @ 2001-07-01 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:45:31PM +0300, Jonas Berlin wrote:
> To avoid this /boot/boot thing and still keep software that expect stuff to
> be under /boot on the boot partition happy, I suggest the following setup:
>
> ln -s /boot /boot/boot
>
> 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?
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
2001-07-01 15:40 ` Daniel Robbins
@ 2001-07-01 16:10 ` Jonas Berlin
2001-07-01 17:33 ` Daniel Robbins
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From: Jonas Berlin @ 2001-07-01 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:39:58PM -0600, Daniel Robbins 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).
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
2001-07-01 16:10 ` Jonas Berlin
@ 2001-07-01 17:33 ` Daniel Robbins
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From: Daniel Robbins @ 2001-07-01 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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.
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