Grub Manual

[Mike]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>    For example look at this working grub.conf entry:
>>> 
>>> Figure 3:
>>> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
>>>        root (hd0,5)
>>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5  quiet
>>>        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
>>> 
>>> From our work above we are not interested in the title but we want
>>> to figure out what the root is. It says hd0,5 which means in words
>>> hard drive 1, partition 6 which can be also written /dev/sda6.
>>>
>>>    Notice kernel and initrd and see they are just written as, for
>>> example kernel /vmlinuz... This means the two files are in the root
>>> directory.
>>> 
>> 
>> no, they're not.  but don't let that stop you from disseminating yet
>> more misinformation.  it's what you do best, karl.
>> 
>> rday
>>
>   And you are so stupid you make these total wrong statements. Of course the 
> files are in the root or / directory since they are in their own partition. 
> Thanks for all your help rday. I could not get anything done without it.

I just had to look, vmlinuz and initrd are NOT, I repeat NOT in the root 
(or /) directory on my FC6 box.

Someone is wrong here Karl and I don't think it's rday...