From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807061708.56408.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807061648.04045.dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Mick:
> > Hmm, have you this in place?
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Mar 26 2006 boot -> .
>
> I still wonder why it's needed.
So that people who can't wrap their brains around how grub works (i.e.
it is NOT linux) can get the thing to work. So
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=...
will boot, as well as
kernel /vmlinuz root=...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-06 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-05 23:04 [gentoo-user] grub boot problem Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-05 23:15 ` Mick
2008-07-05 23:38 ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-05 23:47 ` Matt Harrison
2008-07-05 23:59 ` Dale
2008-07-06 0:13 ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-06 0:33 ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-06 7:05 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 0:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 13:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-06 14:23 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 14:41 ` Mick
2008-07-06 14:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 15:08 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-07-06 15:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 14:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 15:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 16:36 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 18:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-07 6:58 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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