Re: grub-install to a partition

[Goh Lip]

On Friday 08,October,2010 08:58 PM, Barry Jackson wrote:
> Hi Goh,
> Read the reply from Jordan and my reply to that!
> It seems the "root=LABEL=2010_1_64_root ro" is redundant!
> This works fine :-
>
> menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64 root' {
> search --no-floppy --label --set 2010_1_64_root
> linux /boot/vmlinuz
> initrd /boot/initrd.img
> }
>
> I have found that grub.cfg is *very* fussy about syntax and just blows
> up without error messages if anything is wrong, probably because it is
> not intended to be edited by humans!
> I spent a whole night with similar problems trying to figure why entries
> were missing - I thought that I was editing a different file maybe in
> the mount point with the partition not mounted - I was pulling my hair
> out! Turned out to be a missing ' on one occasion and a missing trailing
> brace another time!
> I think grub2 also does some checking of paths in menu entries, and
> ignores the menu item if a path fails. I would prefer an error message :-(
>
> Cheers - Barry

Great! But upon receiving this message, I rebooted and did this same 
syntax with "root=LABEL=2010_1_64_root ro" (of course, substituting with 
my labelname).  Boots fine! Strange, isn't it? -(normally, I boot with 
uuid).

I hope it is not because you have used the same labelname for your 
partitions (without realizing it) or had 'reused' the same labelname and 
the grub-device map was looking at the old partition.

At least, Barry, you've got this sorted out and I am glad.

Regards and take care. - Goh Lip

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