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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3jTR-00031H-Oe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:06:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6L1416N008954; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:04:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6L0vsPZ024652 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:55 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307A06482B for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23350-19 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615756434B for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G3jKq-0002nr-8J for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:57:44 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:57:44 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:57:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200607210152.31075.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <7573e9640607201727o747b755eu35b00591970bcb6d@mail.gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060616) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.583 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.016, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.583 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: d63819b1-9fbc-4259-bdae-d4150adac3a5 X-Archives-Hash: 6e0a8d6d46ca707a6105810608549a2d Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > looks good, but try this: > > kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 > Actually since you have a separate /boot filesystem, it would be more > accurate to use: > kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Yes both work. as well as what I decided to use kernel (hd0.1)/kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6 I like keeping the explicit kernel nanes around because I test many different things across many different systems, so as to not confuse myself and track kernel versions with various patches and drivers. Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 When it worked from the command line of grub? It's also the syntax I use on many other systems. Thanks Hemmann and Richard, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list