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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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