well, boot is on /dev/hda2
boot is on /dev/hda2 and the lvm is hda5
which is what the boot is ont
if i specify /boot then it wont find the kernel
if I leave it as /vmlinuz
then it works allright.
but i still get a kernel panic
martin
From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
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To: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
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Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:33:57 -0500
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:17 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:38:26PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:52 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0200, David Colomer wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > >
> > > > Kahn Seidl wrote:
> > > > > Somehow my grub.conf is emptied. But, what I did is put it back
in the
> > > > > best I could from what someone else posted.
> > > > >
> > > > > title fc3
> > > > > root (hd0,2)
> > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> > > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > >
> > > I can't beleve no one mentioned this but the lines should be:
> > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABREL=/dev/hda2 rhgb
quiet
> > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > ----
> > English as a second language for some, I understand. I thought English
> > was Aaron's primary language.
> >
> > LABEL #not LABLE or LABREL
> >
> > I believe the spelling is entirely significant
> > ----
> > >
> > > or am I going crazy.
> > ----
> You are right .. I can't spell. But my point is that the lines should
> be:
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz...
> initrd /boot/initrd..
>
> Not:
> kernel /vmlinuz...
> initrd /initrd...
>
> That is the problem.
I see 2 possibilities.
If there is a separate /boot partition (as I use) then the lines would
be
*********
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
***********
If there is no /boot partition then the alternate form would be correct
***********
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
***********
Note, that you can use either root-LABEL=/ or root=/dev/hda2, but you
cannot mix the LABEL and device name in the same line.
Also, I noted that Kahn gave the stanza
> title fc3
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
which seems incorrect in one other way.
The second line [ root (hd0,2) ] likely does not point to /dev/hda2.
The way grub works that should point to the 3rd partition on the drive
(/dev/hda3). This would imply that /boot is in /dev/hda3 and if so then
having the kernel line without the /boot part would be correct.
Only Kahn can answer that part.
Mine which I showed above as [ root (hd0,0) ] actually points to
the /boot partition which is /dev/hda1. Grub starts counting partitions
from 0 but the partition table starts counting from 1.
> --
>
> =======================================================================
> P-K4
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
>
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