On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:54:31 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. >
Let me see if I understand grub's interpretation of menu.lst correctly. I have a boot stanza in my menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae testing (squeeze-grub) OK root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae root=/dev/mapper/VG1-testing--root ro initrd /initrd.img-3.0.0-1-686-pae this means that the kernel, /vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae, is taken from the top-level directory on partition (hd0, 5) which what used to be called /dev/sda6, and that when this kernel is booted, it will use /dev/mapper/VG1-testing--root as its root partition. It's the /etc/fstab file within /dev/mapper/VG1-testing--root that it will use to find out what to mount on /boot, which should properly be the same (hd0, 5) that was used to find the kernel. And finally, when grub-update is run, it uses some of the options within menu.lst when it creates the new one. Here I mean options other than just the existing hand-made static boot stanzas. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jjtgam$fd2$1...@dough.gmane.org
