Michael Schwendt
thank you for your advice!
I understood grub much better now!
And I serve my problem by the help of and other guy,
he told me to edit the /etc/fstab ,and specify the /
mount point as the /dev/hdbx,but now label!
It make sence,I thingk!
Thank you for your help again!
======= 2003-06-08 13:21:00 Michael Schwendt wrote：=======
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>On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:23:28 +0800, winglion wrote:
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>> As what I had learned form IBM-developwork
>> the param kernel in grub menu should be :
>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4..... root=/dev/hdxx(or root=/LABEL=/
>> (I am not quite sure of the root param, as I always use /dev/hdb7 in manual;)
>> but I found the menu generate by redaht8 or 9
>> is :
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4...... root=......
>>
>> I don't understand why it change to /vmlinuz....
>
>Because a /boot partition is used. On the boot partition which
>is mounted on /boot, the absolute path name of the kernel image
>is /vmlinuz-2.4..... The /boot partition is specified with
>GRUB's root(hd?,?) command.
>
>GRUB's "root" partition is the /boot partiton. ;o)
>
>> But I think it may lead to my trouble;
>> ------------------------------------------
>> here is my problem:
>> I plus an other harddesk which contain a RH8 to a box
>> that have a RH9.
>> RH9 is in hdb, / is hdb7 and /boot is hdb6.
>> rh8 is in hdc, it's / is hdc5 and /boot is hdc1;
>> I want to boot in to RH9 :
>> the gurb menu of RH9 gen by redhat is like this:
>> root (hd0,5) (the hdb1 is a fat32 with winxp ,grub is in mbr)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/LABEL=/
>> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
>>
>> this can't boot correctly as I plus the hdc on the box,
>
>Should be: root=LABEL=/
>
>> It told me multi / is found ,and stop in the syslog as many faild
>> had been given before!
>> well, I try to boot manual,I type this:
>> root (hd0,5)
>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hdb7
>> grub told me file not found
>
>As explained above, the file "vmlinuz-2.4.20-8" is on your /boot
>partition, hence you would type:
>
> root (hd0,5)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hdb7
>
>Or:
>
> kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hdb7
>
>> If I try :
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hdb7
>> it pass! then with the same initrd param
>> It start to boot but with the same faild at the end!
>>
>> so how can I boot correctly it I had two hd with LABEL /?
>> Any advice would be appreciate!
>
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