On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ...../etc/grub.conf > > And everyone with a Unix-brain will understand. > > And everyone with a brain will understand that if /etc is on a > partition not accessible by grub and /boot is a seperate partition > which is accessible it just won't work. And then I'm not even talking > about situations in which people want to change the grub config from > within different OSes which don't support every filesystem etc.
You don't have to be so harsh. The intention was that /boot became in recent years a mess, and maybe it's time to put into it some Unix- traditional order. E.g. /boot/etc/grub.conf /boot/lib/grub/*stage* (or even /boot/lib/grub-$version/...) There will of course be backwards-compatibility problems - you can't easily move /boot/System.map-$version, probably other such things as well. I also find it weird that at least RedHat writes /boot/kernel.h every boot. Shouldn't it be somewhere under /var? The FHS says quite little about /boot. In particular, it says: "Configuration files for boot loaders should be placed in /etc." That's, of course, was written for the lilo days, the FS-agnostic boot-loader days. Maybe it's time for an update. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub