Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

["Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>]

Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> writes:
> IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l 
> or fdisk
> -l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first
> partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 
> would
> have been/be correct.

Sorry.  I meant to do that.

Swap is the last partition.

Disk /dev/sde: 29.8 GiB, 32017047552 bytes, 62533296 sectors
Disk model: 600             
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sde1           2048 59314876 59312829 28.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sde2       59314877 62533295  3218419  1.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sde5       59316925 62533295  3216371  1.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

$ ls -1 /mnt/

bin
boot
dev
etc
home
initrd.img
initrd.img.old
lib
lost+found
media
mnt
opt
proc
root
run
sbin
srv
sys
tmp
usr
var
vmlinuz
vmlinuz.old