On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:15:41AM +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > > as you stated you have a small partition where you keep all your > kernels, is it mounted as /boot? If so, you need to drop the reference > to boot in the kernel line, e.g. I guess, I'll be shouting BINGO soon. That's got to be it. I'be just been jumping over my kernels. I'll write back if that isn't the reason. Silly me not considering that as an option. > > kernel (hd0,0)/lfs-2.6.15.4 > > I'm not too sure about symlinks I've never used them at this point. If > you are symlinking to another partition, is it available at the initial > boot up? Can grub see it? I'd be minded to start with a simple setup and > then gradually move things as try with each change. > No the links are in the same partition, so I guess I can illiminate this practice. It just seemed recreating a symlink was easier than editing lilo.conf.
Thanks Fingers crossed and that....... Gena > I have a separate boot partition which happens to be hdb1 (hd1,0) on my > machine and my kernel line looks like this: > > root (hd1,2) > kernel (hd1,0)/kernel-2.6.16.16-1 root=/dev/hdb3 vga=791 > > The root (/) of this linux build is /dev/hdb3 (in grub speak (hd1,2)). > And hdb1 (hd1,0) is mounted as /boot in fstab along with several other > physically separate partitions such as /usr, /opt, /srv, /home, /var > > If you only have a single partition (like after an initial LFS build) > then your grub menu.lst lines might look something like: > > root (hd1,10) > kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.12.5 root=/dev/sda11 vga=791 > > Note here that (hd1,10) and /dev/sda11 are actually the same physical > drive... > > Hope this helps > > Al > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- 2E0AXU Freedom & Power provided by debian GNU Linux -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
