GRUB

[Les Mikesell]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>>>     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
>>>>     
>>> Don't you need initrd ?
>>>
>>>   
>>     Well it came back and told me what kernel it found and I thought it
>> was happy so I did boot, but it didn't.
>>
>>     My problem about grub is there are a lot of changes from just 3
>> years ago.
> 
> I agree with you that grub documentation leaves something to be desired.
> 
> However, I would have to add that I am amazed that you have not noticed
> in your reading about grub
> that you normally need an initrd as well as a kernel 
> to start a Linux system.

I think it is only absolutely required if the device drivers needed to 
access the root filesystem must be loaded as modules.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com