Christian Gut <[email protected]> wrote: > I did not question that, I just wanted to know if my understanding of > how the boot loader finds the root filesystem is correct.
It finds it. You are advised to use the default. If you change things, you are on your own. > As far as I understand, you can use installboot -r to install the boot > loader onto a different partition. Let’s call it /boot. And then you > can have /etc/boot.conf over there, too. As I said, you are on your own. > Use case: have two separate installations on the same system. Switch > between them using boot.conf. This could be for testing and > development purposes or to gain resilience if one of the filesystems > is messed up. You've stepped outside the default configuration: You are on your own. There is no way boot.conf is going to be read from the MSDOS partition, that would break OTHER configurations people expect to work. And to be clear one more time -- what you proposed is different than all the other architectures, so it is not going to be changed.
