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Bug 777

Summary: "/boot" unnecessary in grub configuration samples in build doc
Product: [OLD] Docs-user Reporter: Daniel Lyons <fusion>
Component: OtherAssignee: Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) <g2boojum>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

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 ...