grub

[Patrick Dupre]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>> Hi Mikkel,
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure about what you said.
>>>> Even not saying root (), grub should find the image if device.map is
>>>> correct ?
>>>> Anyway, I tried what you said by setting root (hd1,4), but stil it does
>>>> only find the image on hd0,7 !!
>>>>
>>> What I am saying is that the root directive must point to where the
>>> kernel and initrd are on the disk. Do you have the
>>> vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 kernel in the /boot directory on /dev/sdb5?
>>
>> I have the same /boot directory on both disks
>>
>> this is the fstab
>>
>> /dev/sdb5               /               ext3    defaults        1 1
>> tmpfs                   /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>> devpts                  /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>> sysfs                   /sys            sysfs   defaults        0 0
>> proc                    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
>> /dev/sdb6               /usr            ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb10              /tmp            ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb11              /home           ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb9               /usr/src        ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb7               /usr/lib        ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb8               /usr/local      ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb12              /iso-image      ext3    defaults        1 2
>> /dev/sdb1               swap            swap    defaults        0 0
>>
>> /dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy             msdos,auto      noauto,owner
>>
>> /dev/sda6       /mnt/winnt-home         ntfs    umask=0222 0 0
>>
>>
> Ok - take a look in /boot on the new install. What kernels and
> initrds do you have in there? Is vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 in that
> directory, along with initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img?

Yes

  ls /mnt/tmp/boot -l (sdb5)
total 11396
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78647 2008-01-21 05:20 config-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78675 2008-05-15 05:42 config-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-02-25 23:42 grub/
-rw------- 1 root root 2884214 2008-01-30 19:44 initrd-2.6.23.14-64.fc7.img
-rw------- 1 root root 2927589 2008-06-03 10:10 initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  845322 2008-01-21 05:20 System.map-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  846522 2008-05-15 05:42 System.map-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1971712 2008-01-21 05:20 vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1975008 2008-05-15 05:42 vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7

and

ls -l /boot (sda8)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78647 2008-01-21 05:20 config-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78675 2008-05-15 05:42 config-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 2009-02-27 01:12 grub/
-rw------- 1 root root 2884214 2008-01-30 19:44 initrd-2.6.23.14-64.fc7.img
-rw------- 1 root root 2927589 2008-06-03 10:10 initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  845322 2008-01-21 05:20 System.map-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  846522 2008-05-15 05:42 System.map-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1971712 2008-01-21 05:20 vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1975008 2008-05-15 05:42 vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7


>>>
>>> There are other ways to manage this, but lets take things one step
>>> at a time and get what you are trying here working, and you
>>> understanding what is going on.
>>>
>>> One other point - you should really upgrade to a newer version - F9
>>> or F10. F7 has not been supported for 6 months, and F8 is also
>>> unsupported now.
>>
>> I will make the update, as soon as I will have understand what is going on.
>>
> That is fine - I will do my best to explain things. I hope I can
> teach you what is going on. It can be confusing because the root you
> tell Grub to use may be different from the root directory the kernel
> uses.
>
>> Ths grub version in FC10 is almost the same as in FC7
>>
> The main difference is the pretty screen you can use instead of
> seeing what is going on.
>
> Mikkel
>

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