pd520@xxxxxxxxxx: >>> This is my grub.conf: >>> boot=/dev/sda >>> default=0 >>> timeout=10 >>> splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>> hiddenmenu >>> title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7) >>> root (hd0,7) >>> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet selinux=0 >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet selinux=0 >>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img >>> >>> >>> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) >>> root (hd0,7) >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet selinux=0 >>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img >>> >>> >>> I have not problem to boot on: 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 Tim: >> Using the above grub.conf stanza for that kernel? Your sample grub.conf >> is an exact copy of the file? There's no typing errors in the copy you >> e-mailed? Dr P Dupre: > Like what ? I do not see any typo. > I already work around. I cannot see what is wrong. The kernel > 2.6.21-1.3194 is absolutely fine, but not the new ones. Same syntax. Just wanted to be sure that we're seeing *exactly* what you're actually using. Sometimes people make mistakes when they post a copy of their files. >> By the way: CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD, NOW! You've just shown the world the >> hashsum for it, and that may be enough to crack it. > Is it the password of grub ? Whatever password you set to lock grub options out. If it's the same actual password as something else, as well, change that, too. >>> With the new kernel, if I put: >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet selinux=0 >>> >>> if fails because it try to boot on a /dev/sdb, >> *Why* does using LABEL=/ cause it to use /dev/sdb? Do you have two >> drives, is "/" the right label? > The first time that I installed a FC7 I had a problem with the > root=LABEL=/ because I guess that I had 2 partitions on 2 different > drive with the same lable like /. So since that time, I avoid to use the > LABEL. You can't refer to partitions by labels if they're not unique. Change one of them, at least. 1. Use e2label to change the label actually used on the partition 2. Alter any, and *all*, configuration files to suit. You might call one label "internal" and the other "external", just as long as you can tell which is which, easily. The label doesn't have to be "/", it's just a name, not the mount point. Of course, using device names *should* work, but if something else also refers to a partition by a label, such as an fstab file, you're in for trouble. > Yes /dev/sda8 has a label /, as well as /dev/sdb5 which I only mount in > read-only. There's your problem (or one problem, at least). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
