On 2/17/06, Brian McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:16:51AM -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote: > > The entries in my /boot/grub/menu.list look like this: > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-686-smp > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686-smp > > root=/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root ro quiet splash > > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.12-10-686-smp > > savedefault > > boot > > > > Which makes sense, but there's also a /boot/grub/device.map that looks like > > (hd0) /dev/hdc > > (hd1) /dev/hdd > > (hd2) /dev/sda > > (hd3) /dev/sdb > > Rick, I am interested in what others say on this matter, but I _suspect_ > that what is happening is that ( no, I'm not sure any more, however ) > that GRUB is using track 0 on the first IDE drive to do the actual first > stage boot -- however there _is_ that pesky "root" parameter / command > in there that seems to imply that /boot is on that drive too, in fact, > as /dev/hda1. > > > Hmmmm?????
The first partition of the first IDE drive has nothing but an empty ext3 file system in it $ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/tmp $ ls /mnt/tmp lost+found $ -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
