Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 at 12:56 PM From: Googlemail <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Moving Grub to a different partition 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. Right got it. One other question. Is Grub suppose to install its files into the boot directory on the LFS partition, the book seems to suggest this? I installed Grub for the first time on an LFS install the other day and it didn't. thanks Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
