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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:28:10 -0700
From: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: grub and ext3 fs (solved)
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 20:26:48 -0700
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does grub work at all with ext3 fs?
>
> I have a multiboot (Win98 and several linux partitions) system with
> grub 0.90. Everything boots normally using lilo.
>
> I built a grub boot floppy (ext2fs fs on the floppy) with the
> standard boot and grub directories, did the install to fd0 to make
> it bootable, and added a menu.lst converted from my lilo.conf. The
> grub floppy will boot windows successfully, but any of my linux
> boots proceed normally through booting the kernel and starting all
> daemons (no error messages), but I never get a login prompt. The
> system does respond to ctl-alt-delete, however.
>
> Here's a brief extract from the lilo.conf and the menu.lst files.
> Windows is on hdc (first ide disk); there is a second ide disk hdd.
>
> The linux partitions are /dev/hdc8 (/boot) and /dev/hdc9 (/) and
> /dev/hdd7 (/boot) and /dev/hdd8 (/). Both have a common /dev/hdc7
> (/home) partition. All linux partitions are ext3 with meta-data
> journaling only and fsck turned off (tune2fs -c 0 -i 0). hda and
> hdb are cdroms.
>
> boot=/dev/hdc
> install=/boot/boot.b
> menu-scheme=wb:wm:wb:wb
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=win98
> # current on hdd7/8
> image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
> label=R6K17-8
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdd8
> append="hda=ide-scsi hdb-ide-scsi"
> # new on hdc7/8/9
> image=/mnt/hdc9/boot/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
> label=N6K17-8
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc9
> append="hda=ide-scsi hdb-ide-scsi"
> other=/dev/hdc1
> label=win98
> table=/dev/hdc
>
> db-ide-scsi"
>
>
>
> timeout 10
> default 0
> title Win98
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> title R6K17-8
> root=(hd1,6)
> kernel=/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
> hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdd8
> title N6K17-8
> root=(hd0,7)
> kernel=/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
> hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ro root=/dev/hdc9
>
> Any clues?
>
Well, I got an answer from the grub list, and it works. Our examples
(the two I've looked at on the SxS) are wrong.
Here's what the real grub stanza for a linux partition looks like
title R6K17-8
root (hd1,6)
kernel /bzImage-2.4.17-pre8 hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdd8
ro
ie no equals with the root or kernel parameters, and ro only seems to
be recognized after the kernel root= parameter.
Thanks to those who responded.
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD?
gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD?
gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon
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