--- ChangeLog Tue Jan 16 23:13:43 2001 +++ ChangeLog Sun Jan 21 15:50:40 2001 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2001-01-21 Thierry Laronde + + * docs/appendices.texi (FAQ): cosmetic suppression of the entry + related to the way GRUB handles a separate boot partition ; no + more relevant. + 2001-01-15 OKUJI Yoshinori From Thierry Laronde : --- docs/appendices.texi Tue Jan 16 23:13:43 2001 +++ docs/appendices.texi Sun Jan 21 15:42:14 2001 @@ -146,43 +146,6 @@ You may pass other options in the same way. See @xref{GNU/Linux}, for more details. address@hidden I have a separate boot partition and GRUB doesn't recognize it. - -This is often reported as a @dfn{bug}, but this is not a bug -really. This is a feature. - -Because GRUB is a boot loader and it normally runs under no operating -system, it doesn't know where a partition is mounted under your -operating systems. So, if you have the partition @file{/boot} and you -install GRUB images into the directory @file{/boot/grub}, GRUB -recognizes that the images lies under the directory @file{/grub} but not address@hidden/boot/grub}. That's fine, since there is no guarantee that all of -your operating systems mount the same partition as @file{/boot}. - -There are several solutions for this situation. - address@hidden address@hidden -Install GRUB into the directory @file{/boot/boot/grub} instead of address@hidden/boot/grub}. This may sound ugly but should work fine. - address@hidden -Create a symbolic link before installing GRUB, like @samp{cd /boot && ln --s . boot}. This works only if the filesystem of the boot partition -supports symbolic links and GRUB supports the feature as well. - address@hidden -Install GRUB with the command @command{install}, to specify the paths of -GRUB images explicitly. Here is an example: - address@hidden address@hidden -grub> root (hd0,1) -grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst address@hidden group address@hidden example address@hidden enumerate - @item How to uninstall GRUB from my hard disk drive? There is no concept @dfn{uninstall} in boot loaders, because if you