On Thursday 12 July 2001 00:25, D-Man wrote: > Disclaimer : I have no experience with ReiserFS, but I do use grub. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > | San Segkhoonthod wrote: > | > GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have > | > ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB. > | > | Then I've done something wrong! > | I'll try providing more specifics. > | kernel 2.4.5 > | hda1 ~120MB ext2 /boot > | hda2 ~128MB swap > | hda3 ~27GB reiserfs / > | > | I've tried: > | root (hd0,0) > | kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single > > ^^^^ > > There's the problem. There is no directory named "boot" on > (hd0,0). Grub doesn't understand the OS's mount tables because it > isn't your OS. Every partition is called "/" by grub, or (hdn,m)/ > if you want to specify which disk/partition. > > Instead use > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single > > and it should work fine.
I don't think so. The line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single is an instruction for the OS kernel. By this time the kernel should have taken over. So yes, it makes a difference when you specify: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single Note also that the naming scheme has changed from the un-Linux-like root (hd0,0) to the more familiar root=/dev/hda3. The first root is the GRUB root; the second root is the kernel root. Do correct me if I'm wrong.