Re: grub.conf has disappeared -- FC2 / WinXP-SP2

From: imotgm (imotgm_REMOVE_at_invalid-yahoo.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:32:32 GMT

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:20:15 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On many systems, /boot is in a small partition by itself, listed in
> /etc/fstab and mounted at boot time. grub itself actually operates on files
> in the /boot partition before mounting / on such systems. Anything that
> unmounts /boot on such a system or deletes this unused during normal
> operations partition from /etc/fstab will cause grub to blow sky-high.

Not true. After the initial install, the reference to the /boot partition
in fstab can be removed, and the OS will both boot, and run, with that
partition unmounted. Grub will continue to function properly. I have run
this way for three years, booting 9-12 distros, at any given time, without
issues. 

-- 
imotgm

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