Hi Adrian, >> Hello, is there a way to boot a linux system with a ext2fs >> boot and a reiserfs root partition (suse 7.3 standard >> configuration) with a grub floppy? I would like to check >> whether this works before messing up my mbr ...
>Just follow the instructions in the Fine Manual for creating a grub >floppy and boot using it. Well, I already did that. More specifically, I followed the FAQ section "How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface". I also edited the menu.1st before to (supposedly) match my system. The kernel boots, then I get a kernel panic and am told that the root file system cannot be mounted. My fdisk -l /dev/hda listing is as follows: /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 256 3310 24539287+ f Win95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/hda5 256 510 2048256 6 FAT16 /dev/hda6 511 891 3060351 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 892 893 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 894 943 401593+ 82 Linux Swap /dev/hda9 944 1335 3148708+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 1336 1597 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 1598 1852 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS Linux mount tells me /dev/hda9 on / type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda7 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda10 on /home type ext2 (rw) [...] Here is my boot menu entry: root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 enableapic ide=nodma initrd /initrd I already tried this with /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 to no avail. Grub tells me the following about my partitions: Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6 Partition num: 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 7, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 8, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 9, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 10, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 Any ideas besides rtfm? :-)) Volker _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
