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From: John Campbell <jdc.rpv@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:14:42
Message-Id: 4D38CF8E.3080909@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition by Neil Bothwick
1 On 01/20/2011 01:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:09 -0800, John Campbell wrote:
3 >
4 >>> After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected
5 >>> and which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up
6 >>> to see what is logged to the screen?
7 >>> (is there maybe a special key available, the shift+page-up and scroll
8 >>> is not working)
9 >
10 >> If you're using grub you can use the grub shell to figure that out. At
11 >> least to the which are detected and numbering phase.
12 >
13 > The GRUB setting is fine, the kernel has to load to be able to panic.
14
15 True. My specific problem ended up being the root=/dev/hd[a-z] part of
16 the kernel line.