Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 24 April 2008, darren kirby wrote:
> > Well, I had to put a lot more parameters for it to work -- I am not
> > using grub but my parameters aside from the ro are
> > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2 udev
> > and some more specific to me.  I am using something close to the
> > original gentoo configs, so it uses an initrd parameter also which
> > you need separately in grub.
>
> That would only apply if in fact the OP is using an initrd, which
> does not appear to be the case, though, the OP may have simply
> omitted this info.
>
> Rather, as Alan mentioned, it seems the problem is that the kernel
> doesn't agree that /dev/sda3 is the '/' filesystem. I have never used
> vmware, perhaps it fudges device paths in some way?

I read that snippet in the OPs post and didn't grok it's significance. 
Regardless of the host hardware, VMWare gives you a virtual SCSI disk 
in the guest, which will be sda3, When reader uses a LiveCD in the 
guest it gives the correct results so his partition numbers are right. 
To my knowledge SCSI has always been /dev/sd* so his config is 
completely correct (assuming not using an initrd). Dunno, I'm stumped.

Reader, do you have an XP machine with VMWare where you could copy thr 
vmware gust over to and try? If that succeeds I'd have to conclude it's 
YANVO (yet another nefarious vista obstruction)

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Alan McKinnon
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