From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFVrC-0003BA-OQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:08:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20569E032A; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02A4E032A for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so226894gve.39 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:08:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=VF5Rvm/7z9qBRunZ1m+2zC7JAl71D7tARXDQYATMMsg=; b=vJ5H5mu+luJe8fiylW2IXHvKCfKuwriJNiZfKVvzqDK2aoHeuwalnHctuDFEamoVXE xFiEueUuUarJqPr/ol0zWMTJeB780UsW5fYL5dJyJ2ZreDxwQOlLvQtEcE25A9Dv+52s BoZLFaCV9EBqnm3dqD57EIDx+JJAlTlZI0D84= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=prlYaoM13tY/4pg6BSqETi2ODV2WlO4q3PtpJmunCRTGwZaSqnwPtfu1VxYTT2b3UW bJgzhmM6wshDzg8V+L583DSF71ib7zVLaeW4qIoSjIlb4lP0x2T5zs1m0pZTe7d/81l/ jOoTVvqgarcBI0eU5vT4GuTtMc/+1C82u38+A= Received: by 10.103.242.7 with SMTP id u7mr1584800mur.125.1215356930681; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.240.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g1sm11589556muf.7.2008.07.06.08.08.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:08:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:08:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200807051904.08373.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <200807061542.08090.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200807061648.04045.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200807061648.04045.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807061708.56408.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cc353d91-cac9-4883-baa7-fc14dd57dbea X-Archives-Hash: f8195e00c2a02a73e530d775e8d697db 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=... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list