On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:02 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > In the F8 info grub it states you can boot a linux computer with this: > > grub> root (hd0,4) > grub> kernel /vmlinuz > grub> boot That used to work, and may still work with some distros. Because inside /boot there's a symlink from "vmlinuz" *to* the latest current vmlinuz file. > But this does not work on F8. I don't do Fedora 8 yet, but 7 doesn't have that symlink, and I don't remember seeing it for a very long time, perhaps as far back as Red Hat Linux 7. > I used full kernel address and root= things and Grub found the right > kernel. Of course that's going to work, if done right. But I suspect that you haven't included the initrd line, and that your system needs something from the initrd file to be able to work. > Then I applied the boot and grub dropped out and there was no boot and > no information on why. What do you mean by "applied the boot"? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. ________________________________________________________________ - Are you thinking what I'm thinking? - Perhaps... I've got a boot, here, and it's tempting to put it on and...
