Baho Utot wrote:
> Andrew Benton wrote:
>> I keep my kernel in /home/boot, along with all grub's files, so that if I
>> boot into one
>> LFS partition or the other I can use the same kernel and I never need to use
>> grub to rewrite
>> the MBR
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
> I don't understand how that helps
He was reacting to the question of why one would use
/home/boot as opposed to simply /boot as a regular directory
(not a mount point for a paritition).
> I use a boot partition and this layout
>
> $ ls /boot
> LFS-6.5/ Slack-x86-crypt/ Slackware-13.0-x86/ grub/ lost+found/
If /boot is an ordinary directory under /, and not a mount point,
then one needs to modify the MBR to point to the place to find
the boot record.
Mike
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