[K12OSN] Grub interactive booting problem

[Boris Lenzinger]

You have to specify an initrd for booting.
Once you have typed
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xxx ro root=LABEL=/
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
you have to type
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initrd /boot/initrd-xxx
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where xxx is the same version as the one of the kernel. Command line
completion should be helpful to avoid typo.

With a local boot, it works likes this but may be in LTSP (I'm not
familiar with it), it can be different.

The root=LABEL=/ is a way to detect the / partition without having to
specify a partition like /dev/hda1 (from what I've understood). So you
can have a rack with another disk in which you have a disk where
partition slash is labelled / and it should run the same way...

Hope it helps.

Boris

Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:

> I'm trying to learn how to boot the 4.2.0 server with a grub boot disk
> and it only partially boots.
> Here is what i type:
> GRUB> root (hd0,0)              yes its on /dev/hda1
> GRUB> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=/dev/hda1
> GRUB> boot
>  
> The kernel loads up to selinux with a message about 10 lines
> before stating that it can't open a console.
>  
> In menu.lst, the kernel line reads this:
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp ro root=LABEL=/1
>  
> What is this root=LABEL=/1 option? what does it mean?
> P.S.: i did try this option in grub interactive and the kernel
> crashes, it only work in the menu.lst file.
>  
>
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