On Tue,25.Aug.09, 12:42:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 13:51:14, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > > root (hd1,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 > > > > I'm getting an error on boot that's related to the root (hd1,0) line: > > > > Filesystem type unknown, Partition type 0xde > > > > 0xde is a dell maintenance partition. fdisk -l /dev/sdb returns the > > following: > > What the booted system is not always entirely consistent to when boot is > run from BIOS. Assuming you only have to disks in your system (you
Should have reread my mail before sending :( That should read: "What you see in the already booted system is not always consistent to what grub shows when it runs from BIOS." > forgot to mention your disk/partition layout), what happens if you > change that line into: > > root (hd0,0) > > ? That's still a valid question. BTW, when you are at the grub console (or editing your boot stanza) you can use the tab-completion to figure out the correct partition :) Try something like: root (hd[tab][tab] Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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