From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:26:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090711142607.0edf1ce8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote:
> In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as
> /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be.
Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's root directory, the
place where is will find its configuration and stage files (i.e. the
location of /boot). The root argument on the kernel line is tell the
kernel the location of your root filesystem - /.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-11 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-11 0:16 [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for / lngndvs
2009-07-11 0:52 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-11 1:27 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-11 1:55 ` Dale
2009-07-11 9:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-07-11 13:26 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-07-11 14:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan E. Davis
2009-07-11 15:08 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-11 16:59 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-11 19:33 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-11 21:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-12 3:27 ` Alan E. Davis
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