On 10:37 Wed 19 Oct , SpamHog wrote: > Thank you too Mike, but I have already tried several times with either > GNU/Linuxspeak "/dev/hda6" or Grubspeak "(hd0,5)" so it must be > someting else. > > Moreover, > > 1) Being the "boot" root and the "running" root one and the same, the > second root specification should be redundant anyway. > On your second line, you must add "root=/dev/hdc6" in order to pass this argument to the kernel as your new root file system.
It is a _kernel_ argument and _not_ a Grub argument. Grub only reads the _first_ part of the second line, to find the kernel: -->"kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686"<-- All arguments after this part are passed only to the target kernel and are not releated to Grub. > 2) Funnier yet: /dev/hda5 is not mentioned at all in my grub commands. > Why is grub grabbing it instead of e.g., /dev/hda1 or the floppy? > Occam's razor: the initrd image was made with hda5 as root, man > mkinitrd says one should spec the root if not the same as the current > system root (if mkinitrd works, that is), so if not from me, the idea > of latching onto hda5 is likely to come from it. :0 > > So, up the stream bar paddle esp. w.r.t. why mkinitrd now refuses to > produce any initrd image. This is a strictly fresh and standard 3.1 > install with no subsequent changes - I didn't touch any conffile! > > Ideas? > > Grateful but uncloned, I remain. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
