lsb

Clarify configuration of /boot

Bug #1331687 reported by Jeff Johnson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lsb
In Progress
Medium
Unassigned
Mandriva
Fix Released
Medium

Bug Description

In the section on /boot, it is asserted that all files needed for booting the
system are needed there, but a footnote claims that configuration files for the
boot loader belong in /etc.

This is, I think, an artifact of the way LILO used to work, where its
configuration was written into the boot sector by a user program from the
configuration. With other boot loaders such as GRUB, the boot-time
configuration is actually read from a config file on the disk, which obviously
needs to be in /boot.

I believe this arrangement was intended, but the wording in the standard is
unclear enough that Debian felt the need to explicitly override the FHS in this
regard. We should make this distinction clear.

Tags: fhs
Changed in mandriva:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → In Progress
Changed in mandriva:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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