From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eh2El-0003Gz-Vx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:57:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAT9tM32025022; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:55:23 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAT9kw6F030732 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:58 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Eh24g-0000pi-6A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:58 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEB41406262 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:50:06 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive Message-ID: <20051129095006.771c63ca@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1133246753.9739.7.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> References: <20051129063445.69006.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1133246753.9739.7.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.7; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_fgBOqjMSUA3SUaI.izvkA.Z; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 701d0dfb-d4a5-484c-aca4-af847c170ea1 X-Archives-Hash: e8a41283bd9858a78ac0625dfe05e672 --Sig_fgBOqjMSUA3SUaI.izvkA.Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:45:53 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83 > > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=3D/dev/sda6 > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=3D0x120, size 0x1463b31] >=20 > Shouldn't that read root=3D/dev/sda2 since your kernel obviously sits > in /boot =3D=3D /dev/sda2 ? The root paramter should define the place whe= re > your kernel / grub stage files reside IIRC and not where your root > filesystem is located. Naming the parameter root is quite misleading > though. These are correct. The root (dh0,1) command is for sda2. The root argument passed to the kernel is the root partition for Linux, nothing to do with the location of the bootloader files.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 38: Government organization --Sig_fgBOqjMSUA3SUaI.izvkA.Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDjCROum4al0N1GQMRAt+lAKDF/qo5do/Ok93oXBsMSi0sONwcVgCdFRxI M2kIU5PC4OthWZxPyVsMxPc= =hf3i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_fgBOqjMSUA3SUaI.izvkA.Z-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list