[sclug] dual Grub issue

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Wed Jun 29 09:42:15 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:11:25PM +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
> Neil Haughton wrote:
> >>kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash
> >>              ^^^^^
> >>               ?
> >Not quite sure what it should be. I copied this from the Ubuntu
> >version of menu.lst, but if I remove the /boot part to make it look
> >like the Mandriva stanza, it makes no difference. Still error 15.
> I was gessing that's where it was looking (on hd0,2) for vmlinuz-...

> On ubuntu:
> ls -l /vmlinuz
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 25 2005-04-11 23:15 /vmlinuz -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386

> so I guess you'd have to have either /vmlinuz or boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386

What partition is Ubuntu's /boot in?  If you use (hd0,blah)/vmlinuz...
that should work for the right blah if /boot is a separate partition
which I'm assuming it is if you can't find it on the root.

I still think tab completion from grub is the way to find this if you're
just guessing.

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