On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:23:21 +0200, Thomas Rabaix wrote: > ok, this is my partition table : sda1 and sda2 are ext3 > /dev/sda1 9,9G 3,3G 6,1G 36% / > /dev/sda2 449G 709M 425G 1% /var > > # e2label /dev/sda1 > / > # e2label /dev/sda2 > /var > > Yes the file is located into /boot/grub/grub.conf. but there is not > specific partition for grub, can it be an issue, does grub know how to > read a etx3 partition ?. Yes. It can read ext2/ext3 directly. It even loads its grub.conf that way. > # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > default=0 > timeout=50 > title 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-27.fc8 ro root=/dev/sda1 > initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.25.6-27.fc8.img > > let's try to understand the last 3 lines > - root : " Set the current root device to the device device", so the > root here is sda1 so h0,0 in grub syntax GRUB's root is the partition on which the /boot directory is found. In your case: /dev/sda1 = (hd0,0) > - kernel : "define the kernel to load", so we load the kernel from > disk h0,0 with read only attribute (not sure about the need of this, > does the system switch to rw after loading?) and we define the root to > the kernel as /dev/sda1 (look redundant as it is the same as the grub > one) It *is* redundant because of the "root (hd0,0)" in the previous line. As an optimisation, I would boot with root=LABEL=foo instead of root=/dev/sda1 and give sda1 label "foo" and also update /etc/fstab. > So in your opinion does the grub configuration look fine ? You can run "grub" as superuser root in a terminal and play in its command-line shell. Commands like grub> find /boot/grub/grub.conf (hd0,7) (hd1,6) (hd1,8) should print (hd0,0) in your case. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
