"R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It can be seen that I use /dev/hda6 for / and /dev/hda5 for /boot.
> However /boot is not stripped from kernel entry, and no (hdx,y) entry is
> added to initrd entry, causing me to reboot so many times to discover this
> :(
this should be fixed in last initscripts, or apply this patches to
/usr/share/loader/grub :
Index: grub
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/cooker/soft/initscripts/mandrake/loader/grub,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.6 -r1.8
--- grub 2001/03/31 22:41:03 1.6
+++ grub 2001/04/03 15:39:43 1.8
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
# Redistribution of this file is permitted under the terms of the GNU
# Public License (GPL)
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
-# $Id: grub,v 1.6 2001/03/31 22:41:03 chmouel Exp $
+# $Id: grub,v 1.8 2001/04/03 15:39:43 chmouel Exp $
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
## description:
# Add/check entry for grub bootloader.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
my $debug = 0;
my ($version, $title, $remove);
+my $boot="/boot/";
while ( $ARGV[0] =~ /^-/ ) {
$_ = shift;
@@ -99,11 +100,11 @@
open O, ">$output";
select O unless $debug;
while (<F>) {
- if (m@title $glabel\nkernel.*/boot/vmlinuz-$version.*?(?=(title|$))@s) {
- if (m@title $glabel\nkernel.*/boot/vmlinuz-$version.*title@s) {
- $_ =~ s@title $glabel\nkernel.*/boot/vmlinuz-$version.*?(?=title)@@s;
+ if (m@title $glabel\nkernel.*vmlinuz-$version.*?(?=(title|$))@s) {
+ if (m@title $glabel\nkernel.*vmlinuz-$version.*title@s) {
+ $_ =~ s@title $glabel\nkernel.*vmlinuz-$version.*?(?=title)@@s;
} else {
- $_ =~ s@title $glabel\nkernel.*/boot/vmlinuz-$version.*$@@s;
+ $_ =~ s@title $glabel\nkernel.*vmlinuz-$version.*$@@s;
}
}
print;
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@
print "\n";
print << "EOF";
title $glabel
-kernel $grub_partition/boot/vmlinuz-$version root=$root_device
+kernel $grub_partition${boot}vmlinuz-$version root=$root_device
EOF
if ( -f "/boot/initrd-$version.img" ) {
print "initrd /boot/initrd-$version.img\n";
@@ -149,7 +150,10 @@
while (<F>) {
my @s = split ' ';
$part = $s[0] if $s[1] =~ m|/$| and not $part;
- $part = $s[0] if $s[1] =~ m|/boot$|;
+ if ($s[1] =~ m|/boot$|) {
+ $boot="./";
+ $part = $s[0];
+ }
};
close F;
return $part
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