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Re: Booting a reiserfs root partition with a grub floppy
From: |
Arno Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: Booting a reiserfs root partition with a grub floppy |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:01:12 +0100 |
Hello
I think you should name it not menu.1st but menu.lst with a 'L' instead a
'1'.
Greetings,
Arno
> >> Hello, is there a way to boot a linux system with a ext2fs
> >> boot and a reiserfs root partition (suse 7.3 standard
> >> configuration) with a grub floppy? I would like to check
> >> whether this works before messing up my mbr ...
> >
> >Just follow the instructions in the Fine Manual for creating a grub
> >floppy and boot using it.
>
> Well, I already did that. More specifically, I followed the FAQ section
> "How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface". I also edited
> the menu.1st before to (supposedly) match my system. The kernel boots, then
> I get a kernel panic and am told that the root file system cannot be
> mounted. My fdisk -l /dev/hda listing is as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 256 3310 24539287+ f Win95 Erw. (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 256 510 2048256 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda6 511 891 3060351 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7 892 893 16033+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 894 943 401593+ 82 Linux Swap
> /dev/hda9 944 1335 3148708+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 1336 1597 2104483+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda11 1598 1852 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> Linux mount tells me
>
> /dev/hda9 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda10 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> [...]
>
> Here is my boot menu entry:
>
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 enableapic ide=nodma
> initrd /initrd
>
> I already tried this with /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 to no avail.
>
> Grub tells me the following about my partitions:
>
> Possible partitions are:
> Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
> Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6
> Partition num: 5, Filesystem type u
> nknown, partition type 0x7
> Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> Partition num: 7, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
> Partition num: 8, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
> Partition num: 9, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> Partition num: 10, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
>
> Any ideas besides rtfm? :-))
>
> Volker
>
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