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Re: partition layouts
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Vernon Mauery |
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Re: partition layouts |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:40:15 -0700 |
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Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) |
Marco Gerards wrote:
> Vernon Mauery <address@hidden> writes:
>>If all it gains us is that we know where we booted from, we still
>>need to know where /boot is. I don't see what this gains us -- the
>>root command or prefix variable is still required. It sounds to me
>>that if you want to have a firmware native partition type, having
>>all of /boot be that type would be preferred.
>
>
> The discussion is about automatically setting prefix.
But if prefix is what root used to be (the location of the kernels, initrds,
etc.) then I don't see how having a grub partition helps in setting this. It
will help locate the grub binaries, but not the kernels (as I see it).
--Vernon
- partition layouts, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/04
- Re: partition layouts, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/04/05
- Re: partition layouts, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/05
- Re: partition layouts, Marco Gerards, 2005/04/05
- Re: partition layouts - "root", Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/05
- Re: partition layouts - "root", Marco Gerards, 2005/04/06
- Re: partition layouts - "root", Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/06
- Re: partition layouts - "root", Antoine Terrienne, 2005/04/06