Taylor Cody L. Contr 502 AOS/PETS wrote:
The grub entry for the
original kernel shows root=/dev/hdc3. But, it also has an entry for a .img
ramdisk.
Having re-read your original post, I don't think this is possible. When
you have a separate /home partition along with one or more extended
partitions, your root partition / will be bumped to hdc5 or further
(unless you "force" / to be a primary partition). Your original
grub.conf should have shown root=/dev/hdc5
Would the ramdisk entry in grub fix the wrong root= entry in grub
allowing / to be found?
The ramdisk entry allows modules that are not compiled into the kernel
to be loaded during boot time; it has nothing to do with solving your
problem.
Also, would fedora prefer to have / on hdc5 because XP is on hdc1?
For some reason, Fedora prefers to have / on extended partition no
matter whether your have XP or not.
I did not make a ramdisk, I just changed root=/dev/hdc3 to root=/dev/hdc5
and grub found my / partition and everything went smoothly.
Any info will be appreciated. Thanks. -Cody
You do not need a ramdisk because all the modules you need have been
compiled into the kernel. If you change to a new hardware, you may not
be that lucky. wayne
