GRUB

[Karl Larsen]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Martin Marques wrote:
>>>> Tim Leary escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim I know that.....blah, blah...
>>    I got interested in an old thing I thought might still work. This 
>> you can do from a rescue disk that goes into grub, which is all the 
>> Fedora ones for some time. I wanted to type this in the grub and see 
>> if it works:
>>
>>
>> grub> root (hd1,4)
>> grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/
>> grub> boot
>>
>> Well the root part worked fine. But I tried all variations on the 
>> kernel description and it never took it. I removed LABEL=/ and put in 
>> /dev/sdxx and tried many. Then I made it
>> kernel /boot//vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/
>> and that didn't work. Tried all the /dev/sdxx variations.
>>
>>    It appears that maybe kernel has been changed in the new grub.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
> Are you using LVM?
> You may need to specify the LV that it is on.
> IE -
>
> grub> root (hd1,4)
> grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
> grub> boot
>
> mount |grep "on / " |cut -d" " -f1
>
> should tell you the device being mounted as /
>
    Nope no LVM. A strange BIOS however. But I did test with fdisk to 
see what drive the system was on with the DVD rescue running. So it was 
odd come to think of it. The root was hd(1,4) and I KNOW it was hd(0,4). 
I bet that is the problem!

Karl


-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7