cannot boot to F14

[Tim]

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 11:28 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'd thought the root command just determined what the kernel made / .
> Having reread the info entry on root,
> I'm still a little fuzzy on what it does.

In the grub.conf (or menu.lst files, they're the same file), the root
parameter in the

  root (hd0,0)

command line sets the root for GRUB (he partition it starts from).
Generally, it's the Linux /boot partition, and there's a sub-directory,
inside it, holding all the GRUB files.

And, the root parameter in the kernel line:

 kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda1

tells the Linux kernel where the system root (/) is for the Linux file
system.

On a multi-boot system, you could have a common boot partition (which
can be messy to maintain), or individual boot partitions per OS
installation.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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