Grub Manual
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Oct 18 18:42:16 UTC 2007
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> For example look at this working grub.conf entry:
>
> Figure 3:
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
> root (hd0,5)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
>
> From our work above we are not interested in the title but we want
> to figure out what the root is. It says hd0,5 which means in words
> hard drive 1, partition 6 which can be also written /dev/sda6.
>
> Notice kernel and initrd and see they are just written as, for
> example kernel /vmlinuz... This means the two files are in the root
> directory.
no, they're not. but don't let that stop you from disseminating yet
more misinformation. it's what you do best, karl.
rday
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