Jacques B. wrote:
Lots of side tracking that is not solving your problem.
Someone asked that you run the following and post the output:
# fdisk -l
This was in the thread "Grub is hard to make work". When you post an
issue you have to stick to the same subject line in order to keep all
advice in order.
If you post that along with your grub.conf file (which youv'e done
unless you've since changed it). It is possible that your problem is
as simple as the root command in grub.conf pointing to the wrong
drive/partition.
A person cannot trouble shoot your grub.conf file with any degree of
confidence in their advice without knowing what drives you have in
the box (how many, including if they are SATA or IDE) and the
partition (hence the fdisk -l request) along with your grub.conf file.
Regards modules I am no expert on it. But one simple example of a
module is for NTFS support. You can compile a kernel with a bunch of
modules to support a bunch of different stuff. But then your kernel
is bloated with stuff you may only need once in a while. Instead you
can insert modules as you need them (insmod or modprobe) so that you
are not running a bloated kernel. So a module is just some code to
provide support/functionality. And you can add that
support/functionality by installing that module (again with insmod or
modprobe) into the running kernel. And you can remove it if
necessary. Beyond that I can't explain it nor is it likely needed
anyhow to trouble shoot your situation.
So fdisk -l and provide the output.
Jacques B.
Here is fdisk -l:
[root@k5di ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 140 1124518+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 141 1360 9799650 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1361 1970 4899825 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1971 19457 140464327+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1971 7071 40973751 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7072 7085 112423+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7086 8961 15068938+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8962 9587 5028313+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdf: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 1000 8032468+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
[root@k5di ~]#
You want to know what is where: The main part is at /dev/sda5 and if
I ever get it right the /boot will be at /dev/sda6.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
