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Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com> wrote:
>   
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
>>
>>  do_install_append() {
>>         install -d ${D}/boot/
>> -       ln -sf ../usr/lib/grub/i386${TARGET_VENDOR}/ ${D}/boot/grub
>> +       ln -sf ..${libdir}/grub/i386${TARGET_VENDOR}/ ${D}/boot/grub
>>
>>     
>
> Why do we install menu.cfg in ${libdir} anyway?
>
> All desktop distro's I have seen have the menu.lst in /boot/grub/ on the rootfs.
>
> Is this a FHS thing?
>
>   
/boot is on most distros a seperate partition from /. This is to allow
encrypted/lvm based / partitions and the like.

Graeme