taipan67 wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> taipan67 wrote: >> >> >>> Well, if you consider that when installing & configuring grub1 you are >>> currently obliged to use the term 'root' in *five* different contexts, >>> they're actually getting better... ;) >>> >> Really? I only know of one. Can you expand on your comment? >> >> -- Bruce >> > > Okay, the grub-shell uses 'root' to tell grub on which partition to find > it's stage-files... > > Then in /boot/grub/menu.lst, the term is used first to tell grub on > which partition to find the kernel, then again on the kernel-line to > define the partition on which the linux-filesystem is rooted (at '/' aka > 'root')... > > All of which must be done as the root-user... > > Is that five or only four? I hope i wasn't exaggerating & slandering > grub's good name. > > Apologies if the above expansion is confusing - then again, that's kinda > the point, innit? :)
No apologies necessary. To me that is two: one to tell grub where the base of things is and the other to tell the kernel where the root partition is located. I didn't think about the 2nd. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
