On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:27 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > 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? Would you tell a newbie that GRUB searches for the kernel and initrd in the root directory? Don't you think that just saying that and leaving it there is a recipe for confusion? GRUB's faulty terminology or not, any documentation should make the meaning more clear, not less. This is why I would not say that the files are in the root directory. I might say that they were in the top level directory in GRUB's root device. I might say that they were in the root of the partition that GRUB was using to boot the machine. I might say *anything* except that they were in the root directory, because that is certain to cause confusion versus the thing in the system that is commonly called the root directory.
