Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 17:23:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Petrus de Calguarium
<pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, everything is relative to /boot.  No change from old
>> grub.
>
> In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot.
>
> In the old grub.conf it even states:
>
> "all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /"
>
> That means everything is relative to root (/), not /boot!

Are you referring to root=/ or the grub root?

If you have a separate "/boot" partition, the kernel and initrd are
relative to it.


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