Re: using different root option in alternate kernel option in grub

[Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com>]

2009/1/22 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> I'm trying the setup my grub menu.lst to automatically setup two alternate
> kernel options
> 1. using nfsroot so it needs to have root=/dev/nfs
> 2. boot localy so it needs to have root=/dev/sda1
>
> so I tried to set
> KOPT=ro
> defoptions=root=/dev/nfs
> altoptions=root=/dev/sda1

>From a quick google, altoptions looks to support adding options to the
kopt line.

What I'd do is create a grub boot stanza and try point it to the
vmlinuz symlinks in /
This should pickup the new kernel each time.

Adrian

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