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Re: Grub Question



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:12:33PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
> root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
> 
> I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
> (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0).
> The MBR is unchanged and the system still boots with lilo.

kopt is the kernel command line options: it should still be
root=/dev/sdb1 since the kernel starts counting from 1 (not 0 like
grub).  

Doug.


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