Dual Boot Problem - Linux BootLoaders

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:39 +0100, J.Markoll wrote:
> Grub is supposed to autoconfigure, but the last three kernel updates 
> leaded to misconfiguration of the /boot/grub/menu.lst, and the first to 
> a kernel panic (I put a glance at the file before rebooting, the other 
> times) and this, on two different machines/kernel versions (a k7 and a 686).
> 
> The root and kernel lign came with:
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> root            (hd0,6)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-686 root=/dev/hda8 ro quiet
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> instead of root=/dev/hda7
> 
> what a fun! :(
> I keep erasing the 'splash' line, it puts it back each time, too.

Read 'man update-grub'.  It is an Ubuntu/Debian specific tool (so far,
afiak) that is run automagically by the Linux kernel package postinst
script.  You can also run it by hand: sudo update-grub.  If you look
closely in /boot/grub/menu.lst, you will find comment lines that provide
special information to the update-grub program:

# groot=...

You should be able to figure out how to remove the 'splash' option now,
I think.

-- 
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>