Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 13:30 (UTC-0500):
> The sample that Greg Wooledge showed looked very close to
> how my grub.cfg looked after doctoring the drive references to
> point to hd0,1msdos. and I tried booting that way and set the
> root parameter to /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 which is the
> one that grub chose, again non-existent. /dev/sdb1 is actually a
> Zipdisk drive but I tried it anyway since there is no zipdisk in
> there.
IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l or
fdisk
-l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first
partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 would
have been/be correct.
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