Am Sonntag 18 November 2007 schrieb Thufir: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:45:38 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > That show's that /dev/hdb1 is mounted as /boot (which, BTW, is > > completely irrelevant for GRUB). > > wouldn't GRUB would need that location to use the kernel?
No. GRUB uses its own naming scheme (hdx,y).
> > However, once it's mounted, does "ls -l
> > /boot" show a file called "kernel-has-alsa"?
>
> Yes:
Errh, no. Look again, please.
> arrakis ~ #
> arrakis ~ # ls /boot/
> kernel-with-alsa
See the difference?
> > I also don't quite get the idea behind having two partitions for /boot
> > (hda1 and hdb1 in your case). One of them should be sufficient.
>
> hda1 is from Fedora, hdb1 is from Gentoo. I started with Fedora, then
> installed Gentoo from the live-CD (networkless). Yes, I suppose that
> the /boot/ at hda1 is superfluous, but then all of hda is marked for
> deletion :)
Or hdb1, since hda1 was already there and could have been used for both,
Fedora and Gentoo.
Bye...
Dirk
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