Karl Larsen wrote:
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.
The things that are confusing are that grub only knows about one partition, which is the one where it is loading its config, ramdisk and the kernel from, so this is naturally the root while grub is booting, and it knows it only by bios conventions, since bios is the only way it can access anything before the kernel loads. Since grub isn't Linux specific, the docs and commands don't use Linux device name conventions even when they could (for the install steps). Also, /etc/grub.conf is a symlink for convenience just to match typical Linux conventions for where you expect config files to be. The real copy of this file has to be in /boot/grub/. When you try to move your /boot partition around or have alternates, the symlink can end up pointing at a different place than the one actualy used during booting.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
