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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need design help/input for eclean-kernel
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 22:33:17
Message-Id: fce983dd-c847-25b8-269b-9d0f58e94420@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need design help/input for eclean-kernel by William Hubbs
1 On 07/01/2016 12:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Gordon Pettey wrote:
3 >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Campbell (zlg) <zlg@g.o>
4 >> wrote:
5 >>
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9 >>> 'boot' is a symlink to '.'. Not really sure why it's there but if I remove
10 >>> it, things break. Probably a minor misconfiguration.
11 >>>
12 >>
13 >> /boot/boot -> /boot allows you to prefix every reference to a kernel image
14 >> with /boot, regardless of whether you are running something in userspace on
15 >> a fully mounted system or in GRUB or syslinux or the kernel where "/boot"
16 >> is actually /dev/sda1 or some such and effectively /. Likely irrelevant to
17 >> eclean tools.
18 >
19 > I have to bring up a question for clarification. When we are talking
20 > about grub, are we talking about grub legasy or grub2?
21 >
22 > William
23 >
24 I can't speak for the others but I'm using
25 sys-boot/grub-static-0.97-r12. I doubt I have a specific need for it to
26 be statically-built, but it works!
27
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29 Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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