Grub Manual

[Karl Larsen]

Mike wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>    For example look at this working grub.conf entry:
>>>>
>>>> Figure 3:
>>>> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
>>>>        root (hd0,5)
>>>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5  quiet
>>>>        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
>>>>
>>>> From our work above we are not interested in the title but we want
>>>> to figure out what the root is. It says hd0,5 which means in words
>>>> hard drive 1, partition 6 which can be also written /dev/sda6.
>>>>
>>>>    Notice kernel and initrd and see they are just written as, for
>>>> example kernel /vmlinuz... This means the two files are in the root
>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>
>>> no, they're not.  but don't let that stop you from disseminating yet
>>> more misinformation.  it's what you do best, karl.
>>>
>>> rday
>>>
>>   And you are so stupid you make these total wrong statements. Of 
>> course the files are in the root or / directory since they are in 
>> their own partition. Thanks for all your help rday. I could not get 
>> anything done without it.
>
> I just had to look, vmlinuz and initrd are NOT, I repeat NOT in the 
> root (or /) directory on my FC6 box.
>
> Someone is wrong here Karl and I don't think it's rday...
>
    You may not be using a new partition for your boot things but I do. 
My main computer is at /dev/sda5 and the boot things are at /dev/sda6 
and it looks like this:

config-2.6.22.4-65.fc7      lost+found
config-2.6.22.5-76.fc7      System.map-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
config-2.6.22.7-85.fc7      System.map-2.6.22.5-76.fc7
config-2.6.22.9-91.fc7      System.map-2.6.22.7-85.fc7
grub                        System.map-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
initrd-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
initrd-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-76.fc7
initrd-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7
initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7

It sure looks to me like all vmiinuz are in the root directory.



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