On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007, 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. > > You haven't changed a bit from the old days, have you Robert. I > killfiled you once in rpm-list years ago for much the same stridor. go wild, it's a free country. > If grub.conf's use of /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 and > /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img isn't placing two files in the 'root > directory' then what is it doing? it's placing two files in the root directory *of the distinct /boot partition*, which is, as i hope you can appreciate, a fairly important qualifier -- a qualifier that karl never made in his original post. when someone says something is "in the root or / directory," that has a fairly precise and unambiguous meaning to most linux people, and why you're choosing to mangle that meaning is quite baffling. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
