----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:43 AM Subject: Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements
> On 5/31/06, Kevin Alm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anyway, you can put any root hd(n,m) you > > want into menu.lst and it won't matter one bit. I know, I tried. Wanted to > > redirect to a different menu.lst on another partition one time but it > > wouldn't work. > > Well, I've never tried to do that, but using root(hdx,y) in menu.lst > to locate kernels at boot time works fine for me. I have kernels on > two different partitions, one of which is not the partition where the > grub install is. And grub finds those kernels. How could it do that > if root(hdx,y) was being ignored? Here's the relevant part of my > menu.lst: > > # 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 w/udev_update > title LFS Alpha 20060307 (2.6.16.18-1) > root (hd1,4) > kernel /boot/kernel/kernel-2.6.16.18-1 root=/dev/hdb5 vga=789 > > How is it finding this second kernel? > > -- > Dan > Hmmm, well you learn something new every day. Never tried to use root (hdn,m) to select a kernel. To do that I've always used: kernel (hdn,m)/path/to/kernel I know you can't change to a different menu.lst with a root (hdn,m) in menu.lst. Didn't think changing the selected kernel would work but I'll take your word for it. Regards, Kevin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
