777 – "/boot" unnecessary in grub configuration samples in build doc

Bug 777 - "/boot" unnecessary in grub configuration samples in build doc

Summary: "/boot" unnecessary in grub configuration samples in build doc

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Grant Goodyear (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html
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Reported:	2002-02-20 02:27 UTC by Daniel Lyons
Modified:	2003-01-28 00:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Daniel Lyons 2002-02-20 02:27:41 UTC

Since we are working under the assumption that /boot is it's own partition, there is 
no need to prefix "/boot" on these lines:

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
becomes
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
becomes
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda3

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-20 20:55:16 UTC

I think it's just for consistency's sake.  we have a boot->. symlink so that
this'll work.  That way people have the same paths from grub and linux. 
Forwarding to g2boojum anyway, but I think it'd be fine to mark this as WONTFIX.

Comment 2 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-22 13:20:35 UTC

I think we finally have things set up so that users who choose
not to create a separate /boot partition won't crash-and-burn,
so I prefer to leave those items as they are now.

Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-15 21:05:37 UTC

Trying to clean out the docs-depricated so that I can close the catergory ...