Do I understand this correctly? In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza
title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486 root=/dev/mapper/lovesong-other ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-3-486 savedefault (I edited the title fro what the installer gave me) Does this mean that grub will look in (hd0, 7), which is the same as /dev/hda8, which is the fourth partition in the extended partition, to find the file /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486, and then use that file as a kernel to boot Linux, mounting /dev/mapper/lovesong-other on / ? Or does it get its kernel from the file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486 directory in /dev/mapper/lovesong-other? It's confusing top have two things called root. One thing I do seem to appreciate is that the menu.lst file is independent of the system from which one runs grub. This is much more convenient than lilo, where all files are described relative to the current / directory. --- I'm having touble with another stanza, which I wrote myself by analogy: title etchtobe boots from /dev/hda5; Debian, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/mapper/lovesong-etch ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 savedefault This is intended to boot a sarge system which I plan to upgrade to etch. Its /boot is on /dev/hda5, and /dev/mapper/lovesong-etch is to be mounted on / . But, not being able to boot this sarge-to-become-etch system yet, I run grub from another sarge system. The mount command (on this other system) tells me: /dev/hda5 on /etch-boot type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/mapper/lovesong-etch on /etch type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) and the relevant files appear to be in the right places: ls /etch-boot lovesong:/# ls etch-boot boot.0200 config-2.6.7-1-386 initrd.img-2.6.7-1-386 sid.bmp boot.0300 config-2.6.8-2-386 initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 System.map-2.6.7-1-386 boot.0800 debian.bmp lost+found System.map-2.6.8-2-386 boot.0810 debianlilo.bmp map vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-386 coffee.bmp grub sarge.bmp vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 lovesong:/# ls /etch april etch-boot initrd.img.old offsite-ms sbin usb-reiser backup farhome lib opt srv usb-vfat bin farusr lost+found proc sys usr boot freshetch media prufrock tmp var cdrom gentoo mnt quota.group topoi vmlinuz cdrom1 home mount-reiser quota.user topoi-home vmlinuz.old dev home2 newsarge reiseroffsite topoi-www woody etc initrd offsite root usb-ext3 etch initrd.img offsite-ext2 sarge usbkey lovesong:/# But when I boot this sarge-to-become-etch system, after giving me the two lines of partition information, it stops with a complaint about root pivot. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
