> On 20030717.1630, Bob Miller said ...
>
> Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> > I'm building a new kernel on the laptop running redhat 9. I've never
> > used grub before. There is a /boot/grub/grub.conf file which I edited.
> > Is there anything else I ahve to do similar to /sbin/lilo?
>
> If your system already uses grub, then you're done. That's grub's
> claim to fame: you don't have to rewrite the boot loader every time
> you recompile the kernel. Grub traverses the file system and finds
> the kernel (and initrd) at boot time.
>
> If you're switching from Lilo to Grub, there are some magic
> incantations you have to type once to install grub in your MBR.
It came with grub installed. here's my conf file, which doesn't boot
the new 2.4.21 kernel...
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.21)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/1
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.9)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9 ro root=LABEL=/1
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.9.img
It dies when it tries to mount root. I wasn't sure what that
'root=LABEL=/1' thing was, so I left it.
Also, remind me what initrd does? Do I need it? How do you make one?
Thanks,
Rob
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