On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 12:19:43 +0000 Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >What I recommend is to create a separate partition for /boot. It does > > >not need to be large. 100 or 200 MB is sufficient. I use ext2 since a > > >journal is not really needed for a partition that is rarely written. > > > > >Then move all your kernels, configs, and System-maps there and mount as > > >/boot. Enter the partition in in fstab. > > > > >Now all your installs can share the same /boot and there is no confusion > > >about how to share kernels or where grub.cfg is located. > > > > >Yes your right, this is the best way. I've not gone for it in the past, > > but now's the time. > > > > > > >As a point of information, a separate /boot doesn't have to be mounted in > > order to function. > > > > Okay. This seems contrary to the LFS book or am I not understanding this? > > > I don't wish to confuse you Cliff; I'm just saying that a separate /boot > can be mounted, or not, and still function. If in doubt, follow the book. > > Richard Think of it this way: you need to mount a partition to access it with any program that runs under the control of your kernel. But a bootloader like GRUB accesses the partition directly, not through a mountpoint. So you only need a mountpoint for that partition in *one* of your systems for editing purposes, not in all of them. -- Hazel Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
