On 01/07/10 17:52, Sebastian Plotz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.07.2010, 15:05 +0100 schrieb Andrew Benton:
>> Why would we say that? You've not shown any meaningful use for the
>> search lines on an LFS system.
>>
>> Andy
>
> I did ...
>
> 1. The search command is only useful if we're using a separate /boot
> partition.
>
In what way is it useful?

> 2. With help of the search line, GRUB can find the /boot partition (NOT / 
> partition), even if
> the device of the /boot partition has changed (for example /dev/sda3 -->  
> /dev/sda2).
>
How can it find the /boot partition? If you move the /boot partition 
grub won't be able to find grub.cfg so the contents of the file will be 
irrelevant.

Andy
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