From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from asprexch.aspre.com (unknown [12.41.3.2]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71B720ED30B for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:18:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.aspre.net (192.168.2.16 [192.168.2.16]) by asprexch.aspre.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2655.55) id GJN9T1RF; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:14:57 -0500 Received: from archangel.aspre.net (archangel.aspre.net [127.0.0.1]) by archangel.aspre.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971997BDA for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:16:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:16:09 -0500 From: Marc Soda To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Point of fact. Message-ID: <20020308121609.E3269@archangel.aspre.com> References: <1015606277.2535.92.camel@maas.wired> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1015606277.2535.92.camel@maas.wired>; from erikg@wired-networks.net on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:51:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.4 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: e370b013-8d51-4aaa-8843-38b9d8e5a20b X-Archives-Hash: 3ccac5359bd5d36b0f59f247ad27cf88 Amen brother. On 2002.03.08 11:51 Erik Grinaker wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:55, Sean Mitchell wrote: > > > Well, the rest of that whole post aside, many of us have had trouble > with > > grub because we have no separate /boot partition. In my case, my > /boot > > partition is on /dev/hde1, which grub just can't seem to find. > > > > I like grub, but I've had much more success with lilo. > > This is all explained in the grub documentation > (http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.90/html_chapter/grub_toc.html). > > The biggest problem people have with GRUB is that they fail to realize > what root in the GRUB config means - it is not the system root, but > the > root where the kernel images reside. In other words, your boot > partition. > > Your config entry should be for exampe "root (hd0,0)", where hd0,0 is > your boot partition. > > When you specify your kernel image you must do this relative to your > boot root, which usually should be /. And then you > pass your *system root* as a boot argument, for example ; > > kernel /bzkernel-2.4.18-2 root=/dev/hda5 > > Now, in order to avoid all this confusion (or perhaps add to it :)), > you > can create a symlink from /boot/boot to /boot. This allows you to > specify /boot/ in your grub config. To do this, issue the > command "cd /boot && ln -s . boot". > > now it will work to specify your kernel image as, for example ; > > kernel /boot/bzkernel-2.4.18-2 root=/dev/hda5 > > GRUB is far superior to LILO in pretty much every conceivable way, as > long as you read the documentation and understand how it works. And > when > you do so you will quickly see that LILO is a child's toy in > comparison. > > > Feel free to add this to the docs... > > -- > > Erik Grinaker > Freelance UNIX/Linux systems consultant > > "Perfection is acheived not when there is nothing more to add, but > rather when there is nothing more to take away" > - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > -- Marc Soda ASPRE, Inc. marc@aspre.net http://www.aspre.net/