On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:05:07 +0200
"Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" <edgaralw...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:34:39 +0100
> Andrew Benton <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > That looks quite odd to me. What does the set root='(hd1,5)' do if on
> > the next line you tell it to look at (hd0,6)?
> >
>
> Well, I think the first "set root" should tell grub2 where the boot partition
> is ( in the case of a separate boot partition ), that means where all the
> grub files are to be found.
If it doesn't already "know" where the /boot partition is then it will never
read grub.cfg so the line will not be parsed by grub.
> The "linux" statement on the other hand tells grub where the kernel resides
> and were "root" of the partition to be booted is. Is this not correct ?
>
Indeed, which is why I suggested you try something like:
menuentry "KDE-4.5 ext4" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /boot/lfskernel-2.6.34 root=/dev/sda6 rw
}
>
> Same results. No go
Doh!
Andy
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