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Re: [ot] <rant>grub is great!</rant>



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:02:02PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:29:26PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> > This is not true. I use grub with the /vmlinuz symlink. Simply do a
> > 
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz

ooops, the correct line should be this:
    kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1

> > boot
> > 
> > assuming of course that your root partition is the first primary partition
> > on the disk ...
> 
my assumption was to justify the "root (hd0,0)" command.

> ...and if it isn't, just specify it with something like:
> 
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6
> 
if you don't pass any root=... parameter in the kernel=... command your kernel
will mount `rdev /boot/vmlinuz` as root, of course that could be not /dev/hda1
at all.

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