problems using grub

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 24 15:22:29 UTC 2003


I am so sorry! You are absolutely right: I mis-typed -- it is (hd0,4) not
(hd0,6) in the grub.conf file. However, it does not work.

Thanks and best wishes!

--- "Paul W. Frields" <paul at frields.com> wrote:
> 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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