Michael Schwendt wrote:
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.
As a matter of interest...Does the newer kernel need the ide-scsi call ??...My ide cdrom player works ok without it...
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Regards Ted Wager Mepis Linux user
