On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Petrus de Calguarium <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >>> >>> In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. >>> >>> In the old grub.conf it even states: >>> >>> "all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /" >>> >>> That means everything is relative to root (/), not /boot! >> >> Are you referring to root=/ or the grub root? > > I don't have a clue what the "grub root" is or what you mean by > "root=/", hence I cannot interpret the question. > >> If you have a separate "/boot" partition, the kernel and initrd are >> relative to it. > > I never have a separate /boot (or /home) partition, as I have never > managed to figure out a reason for it. It is just unnecessary > complexity without benefit. I always have 3 versions of fedora > installed (current, current-1 and current+1), so each has a root (/) > partition that contains everything, the whole kit and 'kabootle'. I mean by "grub root" the "root=(hdX,Y)" line in grub1's grub.conf and the "set root=(hdX,Y)" and "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=UUID" lines in grub2's /grub.cfg. The default Fedora install, up to now, has been to have a separate "/boot" in order to use LVM for "/". That's one reason and there are others (for example, some people don't mount "/boot" at boot; they only mount it to update the kernel and the boot config and then unmount it). -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
