Will Senn wrote:
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On Oct 4, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Will Senn wrote:
Hi,
Would it be possible to enhance the book's coverage of using a
separate /boot partition? I found this particularly challenging
when it came time to boot the system. The book suggests in
section 2.2.1.3. Convenience Partitions that having a small 100M
partition is highly recommended, but then does not explain how to
create a corresponding grub.cfg file in section 8.
Do you know how to create a partition? Format it? Mount it? All
the instructions are in Chapter 2 of LFS. It should not be a giant
leap to do that for /boot or /home or any other partition.
Actually, /boot does not have to be mounted to use it. It only
needs to be there when you install grub or to add a new kernel or
edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
Yes. I do know how work with partitions. I think you may have
misunderstood what I wrote. My apologies if I was unclear. My comment
was a suggestion related to the verbiage around the grub
configuration file meant to help folks not to make what appears to be
a potential mistake in specifying the various settings, not about
working with or booting partitions. Perhaps being very familiar with
the file's peculiarities makes it less obvious as to its
inconsistency, but as someone coming to it for the first time, I
thought I would help out with the suggestion. Do with it what you
will.
All right. Sometimes when you are very familiar with something, you
have trouble seeing things from a new user perspective. What specific
wording would you suggest.
-- Bruce
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