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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:32:50
Message-Id: 20010701173250.F32297@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /boot/boot -> /boot by Jonas Berlin
1 On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:08:35AM +0300, Jonas Berlin wrote:
2
3 > > > I.e. /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot
4 > > That solution will only work if grub follows symbolic links; I'm not sure if
5 > > that's the case. Have you tested this? I assume that with the symlink in place,
6 > > you'd move the grub directory out of /boot/boot and into /boot?
7 >
8 > That was the idea.
9 >
10 > Symlinks work in ext2 filesystems (mandrake uses /boot/vmlinuz as default
11 > image, which is a symlink to the kernel installed), but not on reiserfs (at
12 > least not in 0.5.95).
13
14 I think a cleaner solution would be to mount the boot partition at /mnt/boot by
15 default, and then have a /boot => /mnt/boot/boot symlink. Requires much less
16 hacking.
17
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