Re: how to find FC4 kernel filename for grub?
From: Tim (tim_at_mail.localhost.invalid)
Date: 07/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:48:32 +0930
Tim <tim@mail.localhost.invalid> wrote:
>> I think you might also *need* the root=/ part of the kernel line, as well.
>> That's the mount path to where the Linux / (system root directory) is to
>> be found, for the running system, by the way (which is different than the
>> root path for the GRUB). Sorry about line wrap going astray earlier on.
H. Brown <h_brown@netzero.net> posted:
> Finally was able to try it-- nope. Still get kernel panic.
>
> Thanks for your help, but without a working install of FC4, no way to determine
> what commands and parameters I should issue grub.
I now have Fedora Core 4 Linux running another box, this is what it has in
its /etc/grub.conf file (a symlink to whatever it has in the /boot
partition):
title Fedora Core 4
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
It has a single hard drive, and that's the default way it installed. Watch
the use of "vmlinuz" ending with a zed, letter "l"s in Vol (volume) group
entries.
If you're entering that information into a command line (doing it live, so
to speak), you can probably use tab-completion to finish off some parts of
the command lines, as you type them in.
> Because the install never booted at all, I wonder if there is a special
> first-time boot setup sequence that was needed to set some defaults?
I think the firstboot routine does other stuff (setting up X, sound, the
time and date, etc.).
Reading your other message, SATA might be the root cause of your woes.
Search for information about SATA and Fedora. I don't use it, so I have no
experience with it, but I've seen some comments about it being a problem.
Someone's bound to have explained it.
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