On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:00:51 -0500 (EST), Krikket wrote: > Folks, just a quick word of warning before you attempt this... > > Yesterday afternoon, I edited /etc/grub.conf to add "hdx=ide-scsi". (I'm > saying hdx, becuase I forget the correct letter for my configuration. > Needless to say, I checked the dmesg output to find the correct drive > letter.) > > But when I got around to rebooting the system, GRUB choked, and choked > hard. It could no longer recognize the Linux partitions. That "hdx=ide-scsi" is a kernel parameter $ cat /proc/cmdline ro root=LABEL=root hdc=ide-scsi rhgb and GRUB does not care about it at all. It just passes it on to the kernel. I have doubts that it can cause GRUB to "choke" or eat your config file. Or do you mean that the kernel was seriously confused by the hdx=ide-scsi parameter and malfunctioned? > Load up the Fedora CD #1 and run "linux rescue". While I was not able to > enter and move about the file system, the grub.conf file had vanished... > I ended up having to do a reinstall from scratch. I wasn't even given the > option of upgrading a previous install. What else was damaged or missing? Just grub.conf? You could have recreated that file to fix your system. --
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