GRUB and the last FC4 kernel

Hoffmann oasf2004 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 5 00:40:23 UTC 2005


--- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> >--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 13:15 -0700, Hoffmann wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> [snip]
> 
> >>>/boot/, eg.
> >>>#          root (hd0,2)
> >>>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
> >>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> >>>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
> >>>#boot=/dev/hda
> >>>default=2
> >>>y
> >>>
> This says to boot entry number 2 by default.
> 
> >>>timeout=10
> >>>splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >>>hiddenmenu
> >>>title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4)
> >>>
> This is entry 0.
> 
> >>>	root (hd0,2)
> >>>	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 ro
> >>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> >>>	initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4.img
> >>>title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> >>>      
> >>>
> This is entry 1.
> 
> >>>	root (hd0,2)
> >>>	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro
> >>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> >>>	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> >>>title Windows
> >>>      
> >>>
> This is entry 2, the default.
> 
> >>>	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> >>>	chainloader +1
> >>>title Other
> >>>      
> >>>
> This is entry 3.
> 
> >>>	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> >>>	chainloader +1
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>"rpm -e kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4" should be fine.
> >>    
> >>
> >  
> >
> [snip]
> 
> >Hi Paul,
> >
> >Many thanks. I uninstalled the precious FC4 kernel
> >sucessfuly, and now I have just the new FC4 kernel
> and
> >my windows partiction. All is fine. 
> >However, I didn't understood the logic of the
> >'changing number' you mentioned above.
> >Could you, please, explain me again?
> >Thanks! 
> >Hoffmann 
> >  
> >
> When you commented entry # 2, then the next entry,
> "Other"
> moved up from being entry #3 to being entry #2, the
> default.
> 
> Mike
> 
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Hi Mike:

Now got it the logic.
The reason for my 'stupid' question is that I thought
that:
(hd0,0) would mean entry 0
(hd0,1) would mean entry 1
(hd0,2) would mean entry 2, and so on.

Many thanks!
Best,
Hoffmann

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