Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Thu Aug 25 19:10:36 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:52:18PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:15:56 -0600
> Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> 
> > How are you supposed to tell grub2 to look into the /boot directory 
> > for the kernel and initram?
> 
> OK, to inject my own ignorance into this thread:
> 
> As far as I know, the paths you tell grub should be
> relative to whatever the heck (hdX,Y) refers to
> in the disk spec.
> 
> So if, for example, (hd0,0) is the grub name for
> a dedicated /boot partition, then the file names
> you use would be relative to /boot (just say /initramfs...)

Important note.  Although disk number still begins at 0, partitions now
begin at 1.  So /dev/sda1 is now hd0,1.



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