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Re: partition layouts
From: |
Tomas 'Ebik' Ebenlendr |
Subject: |
Re: partition layouts |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:58:06 +0200 |
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> I've been thinking about how to install grub2 on an Open Firmware
> system. Here's one possibility:
> /boot -- Linux-native filesystem (e.g. ext3)
> holds kernels, initrd, etc
> /boot/grub -- firmware-native filesystem (on Mac HFS+, on others
> FAT, etc)
> holds grub executable, grub.cfg, modules
>
> The grub ELF file must live on a firmware-native filesystem. When run,
> it can find out what partition it was booted from, so that is a natural
> place to load grub.cfg from as well (and why not modules while we're at
> it?). Thus this is the value of the "prefix" GRUB environment variable.
>
> When booting kernels from another partition though, we're left with
> something like this:
> title Linux
> linux (hd,7)/vmlinux-foo root=/dev/hda12
> initrd (hd,7)/initrd-foo
>
> [To summarize:
> (hd,5) -- /boot/grub
> (hd,7) -- /boot
> (hd,11) -- /
> ]
>
Just simple question. Why /boot is separated partition now? (Well, in
cases that / is readable by grub). We can recommend users not to use
/boot as separate partition to not confuse themselves and
to not partition drive too much.
--
Tomas 'ebi' Ebenlendr
http://get.to/ebik
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- Re: partition layouts - "root", Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/04/07
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- Re: partition layouts - "root", Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/04/12
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- Re: partition layouts - "root", Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/13
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