[nflug] Recursive "/boot" directory

[Josh Johnson]

boot is a symlink to the same directory:

ls -l /boot/boot
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 1 Dec  2 06:25 /boot/boot -> .

AFAIK its just to make things easier when setting up the (grub) bootloader, since everything starts as though your /boot partition was the root directory. That way you can access your kernel by (hd0,0)/bzImage or (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage. But its weird that everything else has vanished. If its completely empty except for the boot/boot symlink, then maybe your boot directory isn't mounted? I believe that Gentoo puts it in by default.

-Josh



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net>
To: "Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group" <nflug at nflug.org>
Subject: [nflug] Recursive "/boot" directory
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:14:34 -0500

> 
> Don't know what happened. I went to look at my /boot/grub/menu.lst 
> file and it couldn't be found. so I cd'd into "/boot" and found 
> another "/boot" directory cd'd into that one and found another. It 
> just continues and continues like this. The grub directory is not 
> in any that I looked at. I think I had gone 9 or 10 deep. All the 
> directories are identical. Has anyone seen this before?
> I'm running Gentoo Linux (recently updated with --newuse --deep 
> flags set). /boot is ext2 as it it small. All other partitions are 
> reiserfs.
> Any ideas?
> Bob
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