Les Mikesell wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
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.
I think it is only absolutely required if the device drivers needed to
access the root filesystem must be loaded as modules.
Yes info grub on F8 says that. Where they talk to this method they
say to put things like root= in the same line with kernel data and any
modules that need loading on the next line.
I will try again to use this method after my walk. Last time was
close but I had the thing I wanted to boot already boot to the rescue
DVD. That is a no-no.
Karl
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