[Gloucs] Calling all grub experts

[Dave Addison]

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In message <200302162011.28731.bnb@bnb.uklinux.net>, Brian Wilkinson=20
<bnb@bnb.uklinux.net> writes
>Hi folks, yet again I am stuck and in need of some assistance.
>
>Heres the scenario. /dev/hda has one windows partion (that's more than eno=
ugh)
>and redhat 8 across /, /boot, /usr/local and /home. /dev/hdb had nothing m=
uch
>on it until this afternoon when I had a moment to give Yoper a try.
>Installation was straight forward enough, and instead of creating a boot d=
isk
>I opted to edit grub (already installed with redhat 8) to boot yoper for m=
e.
>The new kernel boots up a treat, but then /dev/hda (ie redhat 8) is booted
>with the yoper kernel. My grub.conf looks like this ...
>
>
># grub.conf generated by anaconda
>#
># Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
># NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>#          root (hd0,0)
>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=3D/dev/hda4
>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
>#boot=3D/dev/hda
>default=3D0
>timeout=3D10
>splashimage=3D(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
>       root (hd0,0)
>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=3DLABEL=3D/ hdd=3Dide-scsi
>       initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>title Win98
>       rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>       chainloader +1
>title yoper
>       root (hd1,4)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=3DLABEL=3D/ hdd=3Dide-scsi
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20.img
>
>
>If anyone could sort me out on this one I would be grateful.
>
>Brian Wilkinson
>
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I think the problem is the option root=3DLABEL=3D/ used on the yoper kernel=
=20
line. RedHat 8 labels the partitions so using the label option to let=20
the kernel find it's root partition will find the root partition for=20
RedHat. Root=3D/dev/hdb4 should do it, if I've decoded the root parameter=20
correctly
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Dave Addison

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