On Mon, Oct 25 2010, Lance Dryden wrote:
> One cheat for this might be to, in the running system, mount /boot,
> then place a symlink in /boot called "boot" linking to ".".
>> Describing this is a little goofy; basically the output from "ls -l
> /boot" for this should look like:
>> $ ls -l /boot
> Total X
> lrwxrwxrwx root root 1 boot -> .
I thought of something like that and did
ln -s /boot /boot/boot
Is that strictly equivalent? I can see ways in which it might not be.
Grub didn't like my version, complaining about too-deep nesting of
links.
Brendan
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