On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > > installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in > > /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > As far as I know, grub doesn't use the Linux /dev/ nodes to access > disks. The syntax for both IDE and SATA drives should be the same for > your menu.lst, so something along the lines of groot=(hd0,0). Since > you are using the secondary drive (in Linux, /dev/sdb) I guess it > would probably be groot=(hd1,0). You'd still want kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 > as it is though, since that parameter is intended for the kernel and > not the bootloader. > > -Elijah > Well groot=(hd2,0) works - that is, when trying to boot I now get a message:
root (hd2,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro Error 15: File not found Needless to say I have tried all sorts of variants in place of sdb1 without success. This is particularly frustrating as I can boot the sytem with lilo with root=/dev/sdb1 specified in lilo.conf. That is to say I can boot the system with lilo using kernel image vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64. lilo will not boot with kernel image vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 because initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64 is too large. That is why I am trying to use grub and - yes - I have tried grub with the vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel image with the same results cited above. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
