On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:38:35AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > I really wish grub used standard device names. :(
GRUB can be used to boot a bunch of different OSes, some of which do not share the same device naming schemes. For instance, BSD has partitions and slices. > root filesystem is on /dev/hda6 > boot partition is on /dev/hdb1 > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11 > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11 root=/dev/hda6 ro > savedefault > boot > > So I take it that "root (hd1,0)" doesn't mean "where to find root > filesysetm", but rather, "where to find the kernel". > > And I'm guessing that "root=/dev/hda6 ro" must be kernel arguments, > which would mean "root=/dev/hda6" gives the location of the root > filesystem. Exactly. -David _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
