more progress with grub

FenrisAbraxas ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Mon Jul 17 14:31:57 UTC 2006


Ken N9VV;1266255 Wrote: 
> Hi Simonn,

> I made significant progress. By using grub-install with --recheck I 

> got a device.map that it likes.

> 

> then I checked the fstab and the menu.lst and it is all o.k.

> 

> *BUT* when I boot the kernel unpacks and then hangs up with the 

> message "waiting for root file system"

> 

> I wonder if that is the darn initrd problem? I do not have any 

> initrd in the /boot/grub subdir

> 

> thanks again for your help and friendship,

> Ken



The initrd should be in /boot/ not in /boot/grub/



menu.lst should be pointing to /boot/initrd.gz i think :S


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