Re: Mountpoints - not taken from fstab !?

From: Michael Biebl (biebl_at_teco.edu)
Date: 05/08/04

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To: Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>

    Uwe Dippel wrote:
    > On Fri, 07 May 2004 09:40:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Grub is configured through the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. You have to
    >>adapt this file too.
    >
    >
    > Thanks for trying. Wrong answer, though:
    >
    > Only when you boot using it. Booting from floppy doesn't.
    >
    > Secondly, this is boot/grub/menu.lst on hd0,2:
    >
    > root (hd0,2)
    > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-686 ro root=/dev/hda6
    > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686

    See this page:
    http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/boot.html#initrd
    ("real" root is mounted)

    So your guess about initrd could be true.

    Have you already tried a kernel without an initial ramdisk? If this
    solves the problem, just recreate your ramdisk and you should be fine.

    Michael 

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