From: Vernon Mauery <vernon-grub@mauery.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: partition layouts
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:40:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4252953F.7020003@mauery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oectaeoz.fsf@student.han.nl>
Marco Gerards wrote:
> Vernon Mauery <vernon-grub@mauery.com> writes:
>>If all it gains us is that we know where we booted from, we still
>>need to know where /boot is. I don't see what this gains us -- the
>>root command or prefix variable is still required. It sounds to me
>>that if you want to have a firmware native partition type, having
>>all of /boot be that type would be preferred.
>
>
> The discussion is about automatically setting prefix.
But if prefix is what root used to be (the location of the kernels, initrds, etc.) then I don't see how having a grub partition helps in setting this. It will help locate the grub binaries, but not the kernels (as I see it).
--Vernon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 0:38 partition layouts Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-05 4:55 ` Vernon Mauery
2005-04-05 7:02 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-05 13:40 ` Vernon Mauery [this message]
2005-04-05 13:50 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-05 15:50 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-05 15:47 ` partition layouts - separate /boot Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-05 5:41 ` partition layouts Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-05 16:01 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-05 16:45 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-05 22:53 ` partition layouts - "root" Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-06 6:32 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-06 14:52 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-06 15:43 ` Antoine Terrienne
2005-04-07 0:02 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-07 14:17 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-07 14:37 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-07 16:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-08 6:39 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-12 10:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-12 11:13 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-14 3:46 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 12:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-14 16:30 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-05 7:00 ` partition layouts Marco Gerards
2005-04-05 15:38 ` partition layouts - symlinks Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-05 7:58 ` partition layouts Tomas 'Ebik' Ebenlendr
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