Hadders wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Hadders wrote: >> >>> Hi Ed, >>> It's a pretty standard looking output for grub, as it's the install >>> default. >>> >>> #boot=/dev/hda >>> default=0 >>> timeout=5 >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>> hiddenmenu >>> title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) >>> root (hd0,0) >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet >>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img >>> >>> >>> e2label said /dev/hda1 was "/" and couldn't get a label for /dev/hda3, >>> which should be swap. It said "Bad magic number in superblock" >>> So I ran mkswap on /dev/hda3 again, to be sure. Then went to /etc/fstab >>> and said to use /dev/hda3 for swap, not LABEL=SWAP-hda3 >>> >> >> Could you ungzip your initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img file and extract >> it with cpio and show the contents of the init file? >> >> >> >> > > Done. Okay, the main thing I think you'll be interested in is > > resume LABEL=SWAP-hda3 > echo Creating root device. > mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro hda1 > echo Mounting root filesystem. > mount /sysroot > > Okay, it would seem to point to the use of "hda1" as label/dev is > wrong?? Shouldn't it say either /dev/hda1 OR LABEL=/ I would make it /dev/hda1 and give it a try. I'm using volume groups on my FC5 system so my entries are a bit different. echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot Ed -- Dyslexia means never having to say that you're ysror.
