[clug] grub boot problems
Paul
mylists at wilsononline.id.au
Mon Aug 4 07:42:14 GMT 2008
On 4/08/2008 5:26 PM, Brett Worth wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>
>> Initially I tried
>> root (hd2,1)
>> but I got Error 22: partition not valid
>
> I'll take a stab...
>
> Looks like you have a separate /boot partition so this probably should
> read:
>
> root (hd2,0)
>
> Then
>
> setup (hd2)
>
>> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
>> 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot
>> 2 107MB 21.6GB 21.5GB primary ext3
>> 3 21.6GB 23.7GB 2147MB primary linux-swap
>> 4 23.7GB 500GB 476GB primary ext3
>
> Also...
>
>>
>> menu.lst
>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
>> hiddenmenu
>> title Fedora (2.6.25.11-60.fc8) new
>> root (hd0,1)
>
> root (hd2,0)
>
>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-60.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-60.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>
>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.11-60.fc8.img
>
> initrd /initrd-2.6.25.11-60.fc8.img
>
> Having a separate /boot means you have to reference everything relative
> to the root of that partition.
>
> Brett
>
>
hd2,0 doesn't work either..
The next weird thing is that
the current menu.lst
has root (hd0,2) and that boots the old disk which is /dev/sdb
cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
so I'm really confused it seems its device.map is not what is used.
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