grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?

[Kahn Seidl]

well, boot is on /dev/hda2

boot is on /dev/hda2 and the lvm is hda5

which is what the boot is ont

if i specify /boot then it wont find the kernel

if I leave it as /vmlinuz
then it works allright.

but i still get a kernel panic


martin

>From: Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net>
>Reply-To: jvian10 at charter.net,For users of Fedora Core releases 
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>To: akonstam at trinity.edu,For users of Fedora Core releases 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:33:57 -0500
>
>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:17 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:38:26PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:52 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0200, David Colomer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > > >
> > > > > Kahn Seidl wrote:
> > > > > > Somehow my grub.conf is emptied.  But, what I did is put it back 
>in the
> > > > > > best I could from what someone else posted.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > title fc3
> > > > > >   root (hd0,2)
> > > > > >   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> > > > > >   initrd  /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > > >
> > > > I can't beleve no one mentioned this but the lines should be:
> > > >    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABREL=/dev/hda2 rhgb 
>quiet
> > > >    initrd  /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > ----
> > > English as a second language for some, I understand. I thought English
> > > was Aaron's primary language.
> > >
> > > LABEL #not LABLE or LABREL
> > >
> > > I believe the spelling is entirely significant
> > > ----
> > > >
> > > > or am I going crazy.
> > > ----
> > You are right .. I can't spell. But my point is that the lines should
> > be:
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz...
> > initrd /boot/initrd..
> >
> > Not:
> > kernel /vmlinuz...
> > initrd /initrd...
> >
> > That is the problem.
>
>I see 2 possibilities.
>If there is a separate /boot partition (as I use) then the lines would
>be
>*********
>title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
>    root (hd0,0)
>    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>    initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
>***********
>
>If there is no /boot partition then the alternate form would be correct
>
>***********
>title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
>    root (hd0,0)
>    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
>***********
>
>Note, that you can use either  root-LABEL=/  or root=/dev/hda2, but you
>cannot mix the LABEL and device name in the same line.
>
>Also, I noted that Kahn gave the stanza
> > title fc3
> >   root (hd0,2)
> >   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> >   initrd  /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>which seems incorrect in one other way.
>The second line [ root (hd0,2) ] likely does not point to /dev/hda2.
>The way grub works that should point to the 3rd partition on the drive
>(/dev/hda3). This would imply that /boot is in /dev/hda3 and if so then
>having the kernel line without the /boot part would be correct.
>
>Only Kahn can answer that part.
>
>Mine which I showed above as [ root (hd0,0) ] actually points to
>the /boot partition which is /dev/hda1. Grub starts counting partitions
>from 0 but the partition table starts counting from 1.
>
>
>
>
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> > -------------------------------------------
> > Aaron Konstam
> > Computer Science
> > Trinity University
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> >
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