GRUB

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
    Yes info grub on F8 says that. Where they talk to this method they 
say to put things like root= in the same line with kernel data and any 
modules that need loading on the next line.

    I will try again to use this method after my walk. Last time was 
close but I had the thing I wanted to boot already boot to the rescue 
DVD. That is a no-no.

Karl


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