From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DInoi-0008WF-43 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:10:04 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DInoc-0008U9-Bl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:09:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DInoT-0008O3-Qh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:09:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DInoR-0008NJ-E0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:09:47 -0400 Received: from [64.146.134.43] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DIoFr-00085h-B4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:38:07 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.202] (wbar5.lax1-4.14.105.130.lax1.dsl-verizon.net [4.14.105.130]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE4B670D1 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4252953F.7020003@mauery.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:40:15 -0700 From: Vernon Mauery User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <78d5a6962754dbc4b0f64fb15ffd7b79@penguinppc.org> <42521A4A.6040409@mauery.com> <87oectaeoz.fsf@student.han.nl> In-Reply-To: <87oectaeoz.fsf@student.han.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: partition layouts X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:09:59 -0000 Marco Gerards wrote: > Vernon Mauery 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