On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 13:04 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > grub is somewhat confusing because it uses the term root to refer both > to the location of the boot partition as well as the root partition of > the filesystem. Think of chroots... GRUB's "root" is where it starts out from. There's a root parameter for the kernel (it is *for* the kernel, it's not for GRUB), and that is the system root. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.