John Summerfield wrote:
Jacques B. wrote:
Karl, all your partitions are at the root if you use that definition.
Your /home according to how yours is set up is therefore at the root
as well because it's on its own partition. It's where it gets mounted
that decides if it's root or not. Its mount point is /boot, hence not
at root (/). The mount point of your home partition is at /home hence
not at root.
One must be careful of what terms mean.
"root" ("/") can mean two different things.
In a running system, it's the base of the mounted filesystem.
In a partition, it's the base of the partition. For the root
filesystem, and only for the root filesystem, they're the same.
grub, the boot loader, does not deal in mounted filesystems, it only
looks at a single filesystem, typically but not necessarily, in a
partition.
How about you print this before commenting further?
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.ps.gz
One of the better things about GNU's documentation is that the same
files that create the info files can also create postscript and PDF
files.
The problem is that the pdf is the exact copy of info grub. It is
written by the guys who wrote Grub. It is very hard to read and contains
no examples of how you USE Grub. This was my original problem with Grub.
When I decided to put /boot and /home in their own partitions I
discovered that the Grub docs stink. I want a better user document for Grub.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
