> > > / hda7 5GB > > /home hda8 11GB > > /boot hda5 141MB > > swap hda6 1GB > > > > and Windows D:\ hda9 10GB > > at the grub menu get a shell by pressing c > root (hd0,4) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 > initrd /initrd.img > boot > > Assuming that vmlinuz is or symlink to vmlinuz and initrd is in /boot > and is named as abv. > > if boot is successful edit menu.lst accordingly.
Boot unsuccessful./dev/hda7(/ for Ubuntu) had vmlinuz as symlink to boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic and a vmlinuz.old as symlink to boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.20-15-generic,both owned by root and 777 permissions. Similarly,initrd.img was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic and initrd.img.old was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic,again owned by root and 777 permissions. I tried root=/dev/hda7 and root=/dev/hda5 with root (hd0,4).I also deleted the above symlinks in chroot mode because my /boot partition is not automount and there's no use of symlinks which point to a file on a partition which is not mounted.Hopefully,that's not wrong. :P Anybody have other ideas? Regards, Easwar PS:I was thinking of moving my /var/cache/apt/archives to my /home partition and fresh install w/o touching the /home partition in case nothing works out.Is that a good idea? -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
