Re: GRand Unified Boot misery and Fedora Core 4

From: Enrique Perez-Terron (enrio_at_online.no)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:00:01 +0100

    On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:39:55 +0100, ### Coralys.com ### <tiredofspam@abolish.now> wrote:

    > I finally got the bloody thing to work. All documents that I read failed to
    > mention that the device in the "root=" parameter was not meant to be the

    The "kernel" command is

       kernel <kernel file> [kernel-options]...

    root= along with all else after the file name on the kernel command line,
    is an option to the kernel. Everything here is interpreted by the kernel,
    by kernel modules, or by the "init" program.

    > /boot partition :-)

    Agreed, the doc is still horrible, even it tries to be verbose and friendly.
    It fails to imagine the questions on the reader's mind. Eg., when describing
    the "map" command, it fails to tell if you must use the new or the old drive
    number in subsequent commands.

    > I am still booting from a grubbed floppy -as I still
    > don't trust GRUB on my MBR- only it fails to see my configuration file
    > menu.lst in the /boot/grub directory of the floppy.

    If you want to test a menu.lst file from you rgrub floppy, you can use the
    configfile command at grub's command prompt.

    Type "con" and hit tab, type (hd0,0) or whatever applies, and then
    continue /gr<tab>/men<tab><enter>

    That is

    > configfile (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst.

    -Enrique

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