Grub Manual

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:48 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Grub doesn't know or care anything about what you think is your root
> of 
> your linux filesystem, although if it is booting a linux kernel it
> will 
> pass along what the config file says about it.
> 
Nothing is completely clear in this nomenclature:
/ is the root file system
/root is the root home directory
The definition of root directory is fuzzy. It 
could mean either of the previous two thhings.

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