On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:34:29 -0500 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will Senn wrote: > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Oct 4, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> > >> 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 What about: The "set root" command refers to *GRUB's* root partition, i.e. the partition on which GRUB expects to find grub.cfg. This is logically quite separate from the root instruction given on the kernel command lines (which tells the kernel wehere to look for /sbin/init). All kernel and initrd addresses must be given relative to GRUB's root. If you are using a separate boot partition (as recommended for a multi-boot system) whose root directory contains all your kernels, then the paths should be of the form /vmlinuz-x.y.z. -------------- H Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
