Re: Grappling with Grub

From: Markku Kolkka (markku.kolkka_at_iki.fi)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:15:27 +0200

Tom F. wrote:

> In my case, hdc1 is mounted as /boot and / is hdc3. So would my config
> file look like this?
> title Linux
> kernel (hd2,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3

Assuming Linux hdc == Grub hd2 (not necessarily true):
kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc3

> I know grub won't understand filesystems at this point, but the
> "root=" is throwing me.

Anything after "vmlinuz" on the above line is the Linux kernel command
line, Grub does nothing with it besides passing it to the kernel. The
"root=/dev/hdc3" parameter on that line is interpreted by the kernel. 

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka@iki.fi

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