Hi Yes, your right of course, I was so shocked to get it booted with grub.
title LFS 6.15.4 kernel (hd0,0)/lfs/vmlinuz-2.6.15.4 root=/dev/hdb1 ro Now hopefully I can find the time to go back to the tutorial and see what tweeks I can find. the single key along with the alias that lilo use would be beneficial to me, so that I can be sure what I'm booting. Cheers Gena On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:55:48AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/31/06, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >title LFS 6.15.4 vmlinuz > >root (hd1,0) > >kernel (hd0,0)/lfs/vmlinuz-2.6.15.4 root=/dev/hdb1 ro > > > >title debian sarge vmlinuz > >root (hd0,1) > >kernel (hd0,0)/debian/vmlinuz-2.6.15.4 root=/dev/hda2 ro > > I think the extra "root (hdx,y)" is unnecessary here because you're > overriding it on the next line. Here's what my setup looks like. > /dev/hdb1 is a boot partition. /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb6 have two lfs > systems, respectively. For some reason, I've put the kernels for > /dev/hdb5 in that partition in the /boot directory. For /dev/hdb6, > the kernels are in /dev/hdb1, which is mounted at /boot. Here's what > menu.lst looks like for me. > > # LFS SVN entry > title LFS 20051005 (2.6.14.7-1) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /kernel/kernel-2.6.14.7-1 root=/dev/hdb6 vga=789 > > # LFS Alphabetical > title LFS Alpha 20060307 (2.6.12.5-2) > root (hd1,4) > kernel /boot/kernel/kernel-2.6.12.5-2 root=/dev/hdb5 vga=789 > > The first one (referring to the system at /dev/hdb6) has the kernels > physically in the /dev/hdb1 partition. So, when grub changes into > /dev/hdb1 with the root (hd1,0) command, the kernels are found > relative to that partition. In that case /boot is not needed since > there isn't actually a directory called /boot on /dev/hdb1. > > -- > Dan > -- > 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 I've done it! Built Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
