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From: Don Curtis <milkypostman@×××××.com>
To: a.grahn@×××××××××××××.de, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] code listing 16.14 of x86 install guide
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:50:16
Message-Id: 20021010205016.77925.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] code listing 16.14 of x86 install guide by a.grahn@fz-rossendorf.de
1 make sure that on your boot partition you have a
2 recursive link 'boot' that points to .
3
4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 11
5 14:30 boot -> .
6
7
8 this should make it so no matter what /boot/bzImage
9 works. this link is normally there by default.
10
11 --- a.grahn@×××××××××××××.de wrote:
12 > Hello!
13 > I would like to suggest a small change to the code
14 > listing 16.14 to work properly.
15 > In the grub configuration file menu.lst I had to
16 > change the kernel entry to:
17 > kernel /bzImage root=/dev/...
18 > removing the leading /boot from the path to bzImage.
19 > This is necessary if bzImage resides on a separate
20 > boot partition which remains unmounted (as you
21 > suggest it in the install guide).
22 > Thanks for your attention!
23 >
24 > Regards, Alexander Grahn.
25 >
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