Re: grub2: symlink on reiserfs: error: file not found

[Christian Meyer]

Vincent Pelletier <address@hidden> schrieb am 25.02.2008 23:58:37:
> 
> Le Monday 25 February 2008 15:08:31 Bean, vous avez écrit :
> > The test file have problem, the link is pointed to /mnt/boot/test
> > instead of /boot/test.
> 
> BTW, I wonder if the initial problam is similar...
> Christian: can you double-check that the symlink is consistent with its 
> containing partition ?
> For example, having a partition mounted on /boot with symlinks inside it 
> which 
> are absolute from OS point of view will be broken from grub point of view, as 
> it has no fstab notion.
> Of course, if you don't have a separate /boot partition, having an absolute 
> symlink should work, and if it doesn't it's a bug.

I want grub to be independent from any OS installed:
grub1 is on hda1, grub2 on hda9.

Debians '/boot/' and '/' (containing the symlink) lives on hda3
cat /etc/fstab | grep boot
cat /etc/fstab | grep hda1
cat /etc/fstab | grep hda9
there is no entry (boot, hda1 or hda9) in (hda3)/etc/fstab

grub1 (sees it from hda1) works with symlink 'vmlinuz', grub2 (from hda9) 
doesn't.
But grub2 works properly with symlink 'initrd.img' on the same partition, 
created by the same Debian-script.

Booting from hda3:
ls -l /
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 2008-01-30 18:21 initrd.img -> 
boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-k7
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2008-01-30 18:21 vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-k7

Booting from Kanotix-Live-CD:
ls -l /media/hda3
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 2008-01-30 18:21 initrd.img -> 
boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-k7
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2008-01-30 18:21 vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-k7

Christian
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