On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 21:54 +1000, Ryan Tsai wrote:
> Maybe grub cannot see the bind, it needs to see files in either your /boot
> partition or directory physically. Which is logical when you think about it,
> mount --bind is implemented by the Linux kernel, GRUB does not/cannot
> require Linux to load. Is there any reason why you need to bind /home/boot
> to /boot instead of just putting the files in /boot?

Yeah, the rather unfortunate fact that /boot lives about 100GB into the
disk. Actually wait a moment, does GRUB have the same limitations about
where /boot needs to be? I had assumed that it does because LILO does.
That's something to research.

re: GRUB's inability to track bind-mounts, LILO manages to untangle that
particular mess. There's no reason that GRUB could not figure it out,
but it may not be that smart.

> Also with /sbin/grub-install you point to the actual device eg "grub-install
> /dev/hde", not GRUB naming convention

My understanding is that it can be either and it maps between the
notations through /boot/grub/devices.map.

> I'm not an expert in GRUB so I might be way off on the first point though

Thanks for your help.

James.
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