From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPcal-00043I-SM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:26:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F35BE0227; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCF6E0227 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39716598088 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:26:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:26:07 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for / Message-ID: <20090711142607.0edf1ce8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs7 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/D3IiI_7UWnsM/OwroLmgzJb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 76d7fc71-b2cc-46cb-b504-e4d692e49390 X-Archives-Hash: e45455bea96ebe2eaf954968c5db7360 --Sig_/D3IiI_7UWnsM/OwroLmgzJb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 - /. --=20 Neil Bothwick Three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't. --Sig_/D3IiI_7UWnsM/OwroLmgzJb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpYkvQACgkQum4al0N1GQMJIQCeJyIrGsAinTyrdpNebqNowmAU fZUAni8VK+NbpjR8elX9+h32nWefWDRD =cWpg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/D3IiI_7UWnsM/OwroLmgzJb--