[ubuntu-uk] Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot?

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:48:07 +0100, David M wrote:
> (although, weirdly, if music, etc, is playing at the time, it repeatedly
> loops the last second or so of the sound that was playing, suggesting that
> somewhere, deep down, the computer is at least still partially alive..)

The audio looping doesn't necessarily mean any software is still running; if
there is stuff in the audio buffer it will do this.  Normally if software is
still running, it will constantly replenish the circular buffer, half at a
time.

> Soooo.., how can I find out where /boot actually is?

Typing:

df /boot

will return something like:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             75529312  54052356  17640236  76% /

which shows that /boot is part of the /dev/hda1 filesystem that is mounted
on "/".  That is, it is *not* separate to the root partition.

If it says something like:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             75529312  54052356  17640236  76% /boot

(note the last bit (the numbers here are not realistic))

That means that /boot is on it's own separate partition.

HTH,
Pete