On Mon, Sep 25, at 10:48:31AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> >By accepting the boot floppy option, I saved my mbr. However I was still
> >left with the impression that lilo was passing some fragment of boot
> >code or something to the Xandros kernel, because grub could not be
> >configured to start it at all.
>
> xandros's lilo.conf will tell you what options it is passing to the
> kernel.
>
I found this thread which concludes that grub has to address
Xandros / partition as a hex number not "root=/dev/hdaX".
This is probably also passed as an option in Xandros lilo.conf.
'rdev' in Xandros will find the hex for the root partition.
example grub.conf for xandros on hda2.
rdev
0x0302 /
grub.conf
title Xandros
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 root=0x0302 rw acpi=on
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-x1.gz
thread is here -
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=296053
Can someone with Xandros test this? I don't really want to waste more
time on Xandros as I am wanting to try ubuntu a bit more.
cheers,
keith.
