GRUB

[Michael A. Peters]

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 /