On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:36 +0530, jtd wrote: > Has anyone tried the dvds of R1 ?. Also i used jfs as the filesystem.
Never tried jfs for / or /boot (i.e. the boot partition). I guess, it is ok if jfs module is in initrd or built into kernel. > Yet another strangeness: > > installed debian Sarge on hd0,5 > installed grub on hd0 > system boots normally, everything fine. > Change disk to hd1 (primary slave) > change bios boot to ide1 (which means hd1 in grubspeak) > grub come up > edit root(hdo,4) to (hd1,4) and root=/dev/hda5 to /dev/hdb5 > grub does not find the kernel image > change hd1 back to hd0 and grub finds kernel image but no initrd. > So switch back to ide0 and boot then edit menu.lst to reflect the > propsed switch to primary slave. Grubs fails to find kernel image. > now edit root(hd1,4) to (hd0,4) and everything works fine. > ?????? Interesting experiment. I guess, hd0, hd1 (grub speak) is reflective of the order of the boot device in the BIOS. Under above setup, what does "fdisk -l" output? -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) "Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can* you believe?!" -- Bullwinkle J. Moose [Jay Ward] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
