2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>

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> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>
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>> 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke <mh@hadt.biz>
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>>> Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares:
>>> > Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply.
>>> >
>>> > Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and
>>> > grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working
>>> system,
>>> > with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel
>>> command
>>> > line parameters.
>>> >
>>> > After "genkernel" finished to build the kernel, I've issued:
>>> >
>>> > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>>> > grub2-install /dev/sda
>>> >
>>> > Sorry for this.
>>> > Francisco
>>> On a failed boot, can you reach the rescue system from the initramfs?
>>> (The message is something like "enter password for rescue or ctrl+d) If
>>> so, are you able mount your actual root partiton (sda5) manually?
>>>
>>>
>> No, unfortunately. But I am able to use the grub console prior to boot.
>>
>> By doing so, I have listed the command about to be used to boot the first
>> entry in the grub menu, it installs some modules. In regard of file
>> systems, it only loads a ext2 module, and the root partition is ext4
>> formated.
>>
>> Although this kernel has ext2, ext3 and ext4 built in (not modules), can
>> this be a cue?  Right now I am preparing to format the root partition as
>> ext2, just to check this out.
>>
>> Thanks again
>> Francisco
>>
>>
> It didn't work, so I suppose the embedded ext2, ext3 and ext4 in the
> kernel is not the issue, and might be working.  Going to explore the grub
> console now.
>
> Thanks
> Francisco
>


In the grub console, prior to boot, I was able to mount any partition using
commands like:

root=(hd0,msdos5)

and then listing the directory tree structure with " ls / " gave the
expected results.

Francisco