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Stefan Schmiedl wrote: |
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> Dale, |
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> Saturday, April 14, 2012, 5:46:44 AM, you wrote: |
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> D> Stefan Schmiedl wrote: |
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>>> I'd expect to see root (hd1,0) in there somewhere. |
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> D> I tried changing the root line and it still booted sda. Also, note that |
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> D> I also tried a grub entry that doesn't even have a root line. It just |
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> D> points directly to sdb. |
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> D>From what I have always been told, the root line points to grub not the |
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> D> root partition of the OS. Those are two different things. Correct me |
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> D> if I am wrong here. That's the way I have always been told. |
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> That is correct, "root (hdx,y)" points to partition y on drive x, where |
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> the kernel is to be found, i.e. the root path for the "kernel" line. |
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> The kernel uses its root=/dev/whatever to set up the root for the linux |
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> environment. |
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> D> I'm using grub legacy here. |
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> me too. And the last time I tried, changing the root line made grub boot |
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> from the other disk. Have you tried editing this line in grub's editor |
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> during boot? |
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> s. |
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Yep, it failed many times with a file not found error. I have a copy of |
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/boot there but it is just a copy of sda. In the past, I have had one |
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/boot and booted two different Gentoo OSs with no problem. |
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This is what I don't get, when I point the root=/dev/sda2, it should |
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point to that and load the fstab file there to mount the rest. For some |
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reason, it goes back to sda even when told not to. |
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This is confusing me. When grub is pointed to something, it should go |
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there and error out if it is not the correct one such as pointing to the |
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wrong partition. |
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This is weird. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |