On (23/06/03 16:36), Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > > their original values. > > Perhaps something was wrong with the way you edited menu.lst. What you need > to do is go into the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST section, and edit the lines > beginning with only one hash -- those are the default settings. Don't delete > the lines or remove the single leading hash. > > Then run update-grub again.
When I did this, it took the values and reset them to to the default values. So having gone around in circles more than once, I tried just booting without update grub and it worked fine. Is there a flag in menu.lst that stops it resetting? > > > I don't have separate boot partitions - your problem seems to be that > > root is hda5, whereas menu.lst points to hda1. Did update grub set it > > back that way? > > That isn't a problem. It means his grub root is /dev/hda1, so he should use > > root (hd0,0) > > as the first line in menu.lst. > > The kernel line should read > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-whatever root=/dev/hda5 ro > > or something like that. That is what I meant but didn't make myself very clear ;) Thanks for the guidance Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
