problems using grub

Paul W. Frields paul at frields.com
Fri Oct 24 12:18:26 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 21:28, Globe Trotter wrote:
> df -h gives the following:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde5             2.9G  2.3G  547M  81% /
> /dev/hde1             2.0G   33M  1.9G   2% /new
> none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hde6              40G  1.8G   36G   5% /usr/local
> 
> 
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
>         root (hd0,6)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/hdg1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp.img
> 
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
>         root (hd0,6)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl ro root=/dev/hdg1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.img

Shouldn't the "root" declaration here be "root (hd0,4)" since your /boot
area is likely on /dev/hde5? Both disks and partitions are numbered from
zero.
-- 
Paul W. Frields <paul at frields.com>





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