Installing grub for a different computer
Kevin Freeman
kfreem02 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 17 22:00:48 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:36 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Freeman <kfreem02 at comcast.net> writes:
> Kevin> 3) your / partition is at least partially
> Kevin> corrupt
>
> Well, that seems likely.
>
> Kevin> Try modifying the root= parameter of grub's kernel config.
> Kevin> If you did a stock FC1 install, try root=LABEL=/.
> Kevin> Otherwise, just try root=/dev/hda1 through root=/dev/hda5.
> Kevin> One of them has to work!
>
> Why? If the / partition is partly corrupted, why should it work at
> all?
Since you were able to mount the partitions when the drive was installed
in the other PC, I thought corruption would be unlikely.
>From Toms Root Boot diskette you can run e2fsck to determine the state
of the filesystem.
Kevin Freeman
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