If that's a feature.... I am going to put my resume in with Microsoft!
:)
Dave
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> 26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote:
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> > It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
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> Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it:
> GRUB knows NOTHING about what's mounted where. And that's good, that's how GRUB
> was designed and how it should work. So it's feature, not bug. Still perhaps
> somewhere in documentation it should be mentioned - for users not familiar with
> GRUB it looks like a bug.
>
> > The menu.lst file cannot be processed as usual for every user who has a
> > boot partition mounted as /boot under linux because of the hard coded path
> > for menu.lst in asmtub.c on line 89 in grub 0.5.95.
>
> > Because of this I had to make another directory and move everything.
>
> > Instead of /boot/grub/menu.lst I have /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst.
>
> > It should work with a symbolic link
> > ln -s /boot /boot/boot
>
> > This bug doesn't affect anyone who doesn't have a separate boot partition
> > mounted under the name /boot.
>
> > here is my partition table info.
>
> > /dev/hda1 /dos vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > /dev/hdc2 /dos2 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > /dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hdc4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>
> > as you can see /boot is not on the same partition as / and that is where
> > your problem lies.
>
> > I hope I didn't repeat myself too much. It was very confusing for me and
> > it took over an hour to fix.
>
> > If you have any questions please email me.
>
> > Dave
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