Grub Manual

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Friday 19 October 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > Karl was indeed using the correct meaning of root in that context,
>
> > no, lamar, he wasn't.  which makes the rest of your argument quite
> > irrelevant.   but thanks for playing.
>
> You haven't changed a bit from the old days, have you Robert.  I
> killfiled you once in rpm-list years ago for much the same stridor.

go wild, it's a free country.

> If grub.conf's use of /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 and
> /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img isn't placing two files in the 'root
> directory' then what is it doing?

it's placing two files in the root directory *of the distinct /boot
partition*, which is, as i hope you can appreciate, a fairly important
qualifier -- a qualifier that karl never made in his original post.

when someone says something is "in the root or / directory," that has
a fairly precise and unambiguous meaning to most linux people, and why
you're choosing to mangle that meaning is quite baffling.

rday
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