Grub is hard to make work

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Sep 26 21:42:05 UTC 2007


Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
>   
>>>    I thought I had been successful in moving my /boot to another 
>>> partition but learned it is grub that is not working right. First it 
>>> doesn't find the color  and second it can't find the kernel. Here is 
>>> what grub.conf looks like now:
>>>     
>>>       
>
> If your /boot directory is part of the / partition, then all the names in the grub.conf file start with /boot/...
>
> Example: initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-55.EL.img
>
> If your /boot directory is on its own partition, then all the names in the grub.conf file start with /...
>
> Example: initrd /initrd-2.6.9-55.EL.img
>
>   
Thank you! I have it in it's own partition /dev/sda6 and did add the / 
to every line. Now to reboot and see if it works. I have been using a 
rescue disk a lot today :-)



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