grub sees 2 out of 3 systems...lucky me

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 10:04:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>
>>>> Just tried adding /boot to the kernel and initrd lines with no other
>>>> changes. Before I did that the boot sequence would start and hang with
>>>> (initramfs)_. Afterward it went right back to "files not found" error.
>>>> Deleted /boot from the two lines and it went back to initiating the boot
>>>> sequence and hanging up. Did I leave something out?
>>
>> If /boot is a separate partition from /, you must not have /boot in
>> the kernel (grub1), linux (grub2), or initrd lines.
>>
>> If /boot is a separate partition from / and "root=(hdx,y)" (grub1) or
>> "set root=(hdx,y)" (grub2), for grub, the path to a file in /boot is
>> (hdx,y)/file and not (hdx,y)/boot/file.
>
> I believe  said I tried it with /boot and when it didn't work I
> reverted.

I was explaining why adding "/boot" did not work.




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