Seperate /boot/grub partition

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:28:52PM -0800, Svend Sorensen wrote:
> When I installed hoary, and selected /dev/hda1 to be mounted as
> /boot/grub, the installed gave an error when installing the boot
> loader.  I can't remember the exact error, but it didn't give any
> helpful details that I can recall.  I had to skip over the bootloader
> install (which was OK since I had an old grub install there already),
> to complete the OS installation.
> 
> Does anyone know why the bootloader installation would fail when
> /boot/grub is a separate partition?

grub-installer needs to know what partition /boot/grub is on, and it has
a special case for /boot != /, but it doesn't know about the possibility
that /boot/grub might be on yet another partition. Please file a bug.

If you don't mind me asking, why not just have a partition for the whole
of /boot?

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]