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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 - /.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.

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  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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