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From: Colin Morey <peitolm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Build Doc Error
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:00:39
Message-Id: 1024089539.3494.6.camel@koch.random-chaos.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Build Doc Error by Doug Goldstein
1 On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 20:52, Doug Goldstein wrote:
2 > Works perfectly fine the doc way and I think you wanted the splashimage to be
3 > without the /boot but you didn't type that. However I like it the doc way
4 > with /boot in there. Makes it a bit more clear to look at.
5 >
6 indeed, the docs way is clearer imho, and if you look closely, there is
7 a symlink in /boot pointing back to /boot (/boot/boot-> /boot) it's a
8 hack, but it's a clean one, and one that makes a lot of sense.(other
9 wise many people could easily get confused.
10 > -Doug
11 >
12 > On Friday 14 June 2002 03:21 pm, Hanford_Smith, Jason wrote:
13 > > Code Listing 40
14 > >
15 > > The following two lines have errors:
16 > >
17 > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
18 > >
19 > > should be
20 > >
21 > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
22 > >
23 > >
24 > > and
25 > >
26 > > kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
27 > >
28 > > should be
29 > >
30 > > kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda3
31 > >
32 > >
33 > > Reason: Both file references are relative to (hd0,0) which is already /boot
34 > >
35 > >
36 > > --Jason
37 > > _______________________________________________
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41 >
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46 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Build Doc Error Mario Witt <m.witt1@××××××.nl>