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<DIV>Thanks Boris for answering back, i`m a bit overwhelmed in my teaching these days so i could not answer back.</DIV>
<DIV>You are right, there is a initrd command in grub.</DIV>
<DIV>I tried it but no go, It starts loading up low level drivers and then a cascade of error messages. As far as i can see on the screen (there may be more before but i can't scroll back the screen) i get:</DIV>
<DIV>loading libata.ko</DIV>
<DIV>libata: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module.</DIV>
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<DIV>The last line essentially repeats for all the latter modules. <BR><BR>>>> boris.lenzinger@castify.net 2005-02-17 12:50:28 >>><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">You have to specify an initrd for booting.<BR>Once you have typed<BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xxx ro root=LABEL=/<BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>you have to type<BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>initrd /boot/initrd-xxx<BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>where xxx is the same version as the one of the kernel. Command line<BR>completion should be helpful to avoid typo.<BR><BR>With a local boot, it works likes this but may be in LTSP (I'm not<BR>familiar with it), it can be different.<BR><BR>The root=LABEL=/ is a way to detect the / partition without having to<BR>specify a partition like /dev/hda1 (from what I've understood). So you<BR>can have a rack with another disk in which you have a disk where<BR>partition slash is labelled / and it should run the same way...<BR><BR>Hope it helps.<BR><BR>Boris<BR><BR>Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:<BR><BR>> I'm trying to learn how to boot the 4.2.0 server with a grub boot disk<BR>> and it only partially boots.<BR>> Here is what i type:<BR>> GRUB> root (hd0,0) yes its on /dev/hda1<BR>> GRUB> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=/dev/hda1<BR>> GRUB> boot<BR>> <BR>> The kernel loads up to selinux with a message about 10 lines<BR>> before stating that it can't open a console.<BR>> <BR>> In menu.lst, the kernel line reads this:<BR>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=LABEL=/1<BR>> <BR>> What is this root=LABEL=/1 option? what does it mean?<BR>> P.S.: i did try this option in grub interactive and the kernel<BR>> crashes, it only work in the menu.lst file.<BR>> <BR>><BR>>------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>K12OSN mailing list<BR>>K12OSN@redhat.com<BR>><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A><BR>>For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>><BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>K12OSN mailing list<BR>K12OSN@redhat.com<BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A><BR>For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>