On 3/15/08, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2008 11:56 pm, Agnello George wrote: > > > > Grub is almost an os with a shell and fs reader. once stage2 is > > > loaded it can recognise partitions and most filesystems. > > > > So let me guess when we install linux we have the follow in the > > partition table > > > > in hd0 > > we have > > / > > /boot > > swap > > > > and hd1 > > we have > > / > > /boot > > swap > > > > and in hd0 we have the grub.conf file located in > > /boot/grub/grub.conf > > > > and in hd1 we have the grub.conf file located in > > /boot/grub/grub.conf > > > > so ultimately which conf file is read ?? > > only the grub.conf from the grub root partition you specified when > installing grub, which is different from your distro root partition. > > eg. at the grub shell you do > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > this will setup grub in hd0 mbr and read menu.lst (the default grub > menu file) from hd0,0/boot/grub/menu.lst, in which you will have > entries like > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 yak yak #kernel from /dev/hda1 > boot > > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 yak yak # kernel from /dev/hda2/ > boot > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-latest root=/dev/hda2 #kernel from /dev/hda1 with root > file system from hda2. u better have all modules compiled in or a > copy of (/dev/hda1)/lib/2.xx.yy/ in (/dev/hda2)/lib > > And ofcourse you can boot any combo of disks n partitions from the > grub shell >
THANKS :-) -- Regards Agnello Dsouza -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
