Hello,
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:17:46PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 20:05 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> >
> > Is there any indication that this could be a GRUB issue?
Not really.
The idea was at the point the message "Waiting for root file system" is
displayed, there are not a lot of softwares than did run.
And the kernel and initrd seemed to be working correctly (when copied,
they are working correctly).
> > All GRUB does is
> > passing the root device via UUID in Linux cmdline.
>
> UUIDs are unfortunately only used with a freshly created menu.lst
> At least the lenny version of grub-legacy's update-grub doestn't create
> at all a menuentry for the /vmlinuz symlink.
> In message #30 Robin said his menu.lst was updated to the lenny kernel.
> So I totally fail to understand why replacing the /vmlinuz symlink with
> the real kernel made his system able to boot.
Also my understanding was that with
root (hd0,0)
changing a symlink to a file in /dev/hda3 should not change anything.
Thanks for your answers. At least it does not seems to be a quite common
issue (you would probably have heard about it).
Best Regards,
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Nekral
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