Karl Larsen wrote: >>> I got interested in an old thing I thought might still work. This >>> you can do from a rescue disk that goes into grub, which is all the >>> Fedora ones for some time. I wanted to type this in the grub and see if >>> it works: >>> >>> >>> grub> root (hd1,4) >>> grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ >>> grub> boot >>> >> >> Don't you need initrd ? >> >> > Well it came back and told me what kernel it found and I thought it > was happy so I did boot, but it didn't. > > My problem about grub is there are a lot of changes from just 3 > years ago. I agree with you that grub documentation leaves something to be desired. However, I would have to add that I am amazed that you have not noticed in your reading about grub that you normally need an initrd as well as a kernel to start a Linux system. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
