[TriLUG] Grub question

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 12:48:42 EST 2006


On 2/17/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:16:51AM -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > The entries in my /boot/grub/menu.list look like this:
> > title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-686-smp
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686-smp
> > root=/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root ro quiet splash
> > initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.12-10-686-smp
> > savedefault
> > boot
> >
> > Which makes sense, but  there's also a /boot/grub/device.map that looks like
> > (hd0)   /dev/hdc
> > (hd1)   /dev/hdd
> > (hd2)   /dev/sda
> > (hd3)   /dev/sdb
>
> Rick, I am interested in what others say on this matter, but I _suspect_
> that what is happening is that ( no, I'm not sure any more, however )
> that GRUB is using track 0 on the first IDE drive to do the actual first
> stage boot -- however there _is_ that pesky "root" parameter / command
> in there that seems to imply that /boot is on that drive too, in fact,
> as /dev/hda1.
>
>
> Hmmmm?????

The first partition of the first IDE drive has nothing but an empty
ext3 file system in it

$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/tmp
$ ls /mnt/tmp
lost+found
$


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Rick DeNatale

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