On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:23 +0000, Dave Atkinson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > and > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:54 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > some stuff... > > Thanks guys, I knew as soon as I posted that I should have included > this: > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb5 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3.root) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.root ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.root.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.8_FC2smp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.8_FC2smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power_off > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.8_FC2smp.img > title DOS > map (hd0,0) (hd1,0) > map (hd1,0) (hd0,0) > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > > and this: > # e2label /dev/sda2 > / > > and explicitly noted that the machine boots fine from any of the kernels > except the ones matching '.*760.*smp', i.e. the disk label seems to be > fine. > > Any ideas??? Could you try with this entry and see if behaves any better? title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp, without LABEL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp ro root=/dev/sda2 apm=power_off initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.rootsmp.img Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>