Re: [opensuse] device.map - Darryl/Carl/Boyd

On Wed January 31 2007 14:13, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
With this and your /etc/fstab, it is possible to rebuild grub's
menu.lst. Your root device is /dev/sda8, and /boot is on it (ie. not a
separate partition). In grub, this is (hd0,7). Thus

gfxmenu (/dev/sda,7)/boot/message

should read

gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/message
<snip>
The kernel options are correct insofar as partition references are
concerned (ie. the root= and resume= options).

Hi Darryl,

The repaired menu.lst I posted yesterday (quoted below) seems to match your
interpretation. One thing, though, I 'clipped out' one of the two apparent
Windows installations thinking it could be added back later, manually or via
the bootloader configuration module. That, and confirming the version numbers
for his installed initrd and vmlinuz, are the only outstanding questions for
this part of the puzzle.

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# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jan 28 20:13:54 PST 2007
default 0
timeout 12
gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda8
resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Windows ###
title windows 1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda8 showopts
ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

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It is possible that the grub MBR contains incorrect offsets because of
these errors. However, correct menu.lst only and see if you can boot; we
can re-install the grub boot record later, if that proves to be necessary.

agreed

The only other possible source of a problem is a missing or incorrect
stage 1.5 file embedded in the grub MBR. We'll check that if the above
corrections do not work.

agreed

If Charles is working a full day today we many not know the results before
late evening (EDT).

regards,

Carl
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