On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Giulio Orsero wrote:
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> > initrd is not just "load modules". With initrd the mounting of the rootfs is
> > done in userspace with tools that understand labels, what I was thinking is
> > that when you do without initrd th
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> initrd is not just "load modules". With initrd the mounting of the rootfs is
> done in userspace with tools that understand labels, what I was thinking is
> that when you do without initrd the mounting is done by kernel which does
> not know about labels
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:57:58 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
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>regarding initrd, since when this worked fine, my initrd.img file
>contained only a single module for "ext3.o", and now that's built
>into the kernel, i'm not sure how initrd could affect this.
>i'll just leav
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:29, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:53:26 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> Did you by any chance added a disk or partition, so that now there's more
> > >> than on
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> I had the same problem on my laptop. I updated the kernel and had to
> edit the grub.conf under the /boot dir to get the thing to boot up
> correctly. root=/dev/hda1 Have no idea why.
ah, thank you, so i have company and it's not just me.
this ma
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:29, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:53:26 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> Did you by any chance added a disk or partition, so that now there's more
> >> than one partition with label = /?
> >> Does "e2label /dev/hda1" sh
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:53:26 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Did you by any chance added a disk or partition, so that now there's more
>> than one partition with label = /?
>> Does "e2label /dev/hda1" show the expected label?
>i see no reason for that to make a diff
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:39:55 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > booting the new kernel failed, allegedly couldn't mount the
> >root FS "LABEL=/", as if it wasn't capable of translating the fact
> >that i was referring
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:39:55 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
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> booting the new kernel failed, allegedly couldn't mount the
>root FS "LABEL=/", as if it wasn't capable of translating the fact
>that i was referring to /dev/hda1 by LABEL and not device name.
>
> i reboot
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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> On Thursday 26 December 2002 04:39 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> > i rebooted and, at the grub menu, just edited that line to say
> > "root=/dev/hda1". no problem.
> >
> > what was
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:39:55 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> (more fun and games from kernel land.)
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> i just built a new kernel, installed modules, tossed the kernel
> into /boot, etc. etc -- the regular stuff. then edited /etc/grub.con
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On Thursday 26 December 2002 04:39 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> (more fun and games from kernel land.)
>
> i just built a new kernel, installed modules, tossed the kernel
> into /boot, etc. etc -- the regular stuff. then edited /etc/grub.conf
> a
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Oliver König wrote:
Hi Robert,
it shouldn't make a difference whether you use label or the device name.
However if in "GRUB language" hd0,7 is your boot partition then it
translates into /dev/hda6 (and not /dev/hda1).
you're confusing the g
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Oliver König wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> it shouldn't make a difference whether you use label or the device name.
> However if in "GRUB language" hd0,7 is your boot partition then it
> translates into /dev/hda6 (and not /dev/hda1).
you're confusing the grub "root" directive with
Hi Robert,
it shouldn't make a difference whether you use label or the device name.
However if in "GRUB language" hd0,7 is your boot partition then it
translates into /dev/hda6 (and not /dev/hda1). Further when I used the
"label-method" I got somewhat different error messages during the boot
pr
(more fun and games from kernel land.)
i just built a new kernel, installed modules, tossed the kernel
into /boot, etc. etc -- the regular stuff. then edited /etc/grub.conf
and added a new stanza for the new kernel, almost identical to the
old stanza, but not "initrd.img" line.
the new gr
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