Some questions about mssqlsystemresource in sql server 2012.

Question

1,What's the relationship of Location for database Master and mssqlsystemresource  in 2012? based on the following technet article it states
" If you move the master database, you must also move the Resource database to the
same location."
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187837(v=sql.110).aspx
So I moved the master database , however I found if I move the mssqlsystemresource  to the same path as the Master database, then the sqlserver can't start successfully, if keeping the path for mssqlsystemresource to the original path,
it can start successfully, so what's the means " If you move the master database, you must also move the Resource database to the same location."       
2,If I want to move the path for mssqlsystemresource  to new path, and make sure the sqlserver can start successfully, how should I do? It doesn't mentioned in the following article.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190940(v=sql.110).aspx
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Answer 1

You did the testing in 2014 or 2012?
In 2012 (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.5058.0 (X64) , if I move it from "MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn" to "Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA" in which contains the Master database ,it would failed and stated"FileMgr::StartLogFiles:
Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\mssqlsystemresource.ldf'"
As I already told I id it on 2014 but it would hardly matter. Error message says that it cannot locate the file. Did you properly ran alter database command to move files. Do you want m to create a step by step to show it to you, I can do it but it would take
a bit of time.
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Hi
Shanky,
thank you so much, may I know how to alter the path for mssqlsystemresource ? I tried to run the following, but failed "Database 'mssqlsystemresource' does not exist. Make sure that the
name is entered correctly."
 ALTER DATABASE mssqlsystemresource MODIFY FILE ( NAME = mssqlsystemresourcedata, FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\mssqlsystemresource.MDF' );
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