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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:52 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Gordon Pettey wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Campbell (zlg) <zlg@g.o> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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> > > Hash: SHA512 |
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> > > 'boot' is a symlink to '.'. Not really sure why it's there but if I |
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> remove |
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> > > it, things break. Probably a minor misconfiguration. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > /boot/boot -> /boot allows you to prefix every reference to a kernel |
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> image |
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> > with /boot, regardless of whether you are running something in userspace |
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> on |
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> > a fully mounted system or in GRUB or syslinux or the kernel where "/boot" |
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> > is actually /dev/sda1 or some such and effectively /. Likely irrelevant |
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> to |
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> > eclean tools. |
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> I have to bring up a question for clarification. When we are talking |
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> about grub, are we talking about grub legasy or grub2? |
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Which bootloader doesn't matter. Instead of having to remember to delete |
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/boot from the beginning of the path, it just lets you reference everything |
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the same way you would from a shell on your running mounted system. |
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