rawhide report: 20061215 - Kernel, no grub entry

[sean]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:57:34AM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>  > buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
>>  > 
>>  > Before rebooting, I checked /etc/grub.conf and there was no entry for 
>>  > the 2877.fc7 kernel added. I manually added the entry but have not 
>>  > rebooted the box yet into the new kernel.
>>
>> If it isn't creating a grub stanza, that would be a /sbin/grubby problem
>> (which is part of mkinitrd).  That would be ununusal though, as nothing
>> changed there recently afaik.
> 
> Here (i686 + x86_64) it got created OK.

Well, it didn't create a grub stanza for me - x86-64.

So I created one, and rebooted.  That was a mess because 
_all_ hard drives on 2.6.19 are treated as scsi - sda,sdb, 
etc. BTW, cdrom/dvd is srX.

Maybe /sbin/grubby knew enough not to like root=/dev/hda5? ( 
I've dropped the Label= )?

sean