Seperate /boot/grub partition

[Carl Karsten]

Svend Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:44:18 -0800, Rich Rudnick <nickrud at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>>It's not that /boot/grub is in a separate partition, but the
>>interactions between the way you've linked the two directories and where
>>you've mounted the partition.
>>
>>You should remove the boot and grub links, create a directory called
>>grub at the top level of /dev/hda1 and move the grub files there.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if I move the files to a /grub
> subdir, then mount that partition at /boot/grub, won't the files be in
> /boot/grub/grub?
> 

Yes, but that partition isn't mounted anywhere when grub is looking at 
it. so when grub looks at /dev/hda1 all it sees is /boot/grub.  putting 
that in /boot after the kernel is loaded is long after grub cares where 
things are.

Carl Karsten