stupid question

kenwih · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 49

whats up with the seemingly infinite /boot/boot/boot/boot/... loop?

misho · Apprentice Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 189

I think it's so that if you accidentally put /boot rather than / in your grub.conf when you have a seperate boot partition, it will still work.

Many Linux distros (such as Slackware) do not promote using a seperate boot partition the way Gentoo does. By including the boot link, the same config file will work whether you have a seperate boot partition or if you are booting from your root partition.
_________________
"Pssht. Extreme sports. If you want a real adrenaline rush, go write a physics exam without a calculator." - D.Z.

Suicidal · l33t Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null

This is the reason as for a why I dont have a clue.

codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

Please use search.

_________________
~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
Who am I? :: EFF & FSF

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

And please don't post more then once