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

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 13:50:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010 10:09:51 -0400
> Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Good thing you caught it, Tom. Did not see Bob adding back the /boot

To GL: Thanks but I think that BH then removed it again.

To BH: Please download and run bootinfoscript and post the output.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/




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