On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:52 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Gordon Pettey wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Campbell (zlg) <z...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > > 'boot' is a symlink to '.'. Not really sure why it's there but if I > remove > > > it, things break. Probably a minor misconfiguration. > > > > > > > /boot/boot -> /boot allows you to prefix every reference to a kernel > image > > with /boot, regardless of whether you are running something in userspace > on > > a fully mounted system or in GRUB or syslinux or the kernel where "/boot" > > is actually /dev/sda1 or some such and effectively /. Likely irrelevant > to > > eclean tools. > > I have to bring up a question for clarification. When we are talking > about grub, are we talking about grub legasy or grub2? Which bootloader doesn't matter. Instead of having to remember to delete /boot from the beginning of the path, it just lets you reference everything the same way you would from a shell on your running mounted system.
