On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:48 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > > Grub doesn't know or care anything about what you think is your root > of > your linux filesystem, although if it is booting a linux kernel it > will > pass along what the config file says about it. > Nothing is completely clear in this nomenclature: / is the root file system /root is the root home directory The definition of root directory is fuzzy. It could mean either of the previous two thhings. -- ======================================================================= It's ten o'clock; do you know where your processes are? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
