Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correction... (more eggs... yuk!)

On Sunday 17 September 2006 00:35, Carl Hartung wrote:
> Okay, I've got egg on my face now... <wipe, wipe> ;-)
>
> Apparently, GRUB does *not* look beyond it's principal function, meaning it
> considers it's own directories and files to comprise the entire filesystem
> (at least while GRUB is active,) meaning "root" in 'grubspeak' *is* /boot!

This factor apparently only applies during *installation* of GRUB using 
grub-install

>
> Who knew?!
>
> So, knowing that now, try adjusting my previous menu.lst as follows:

This momentary brain short-circuit is obviously false... Here's the relevant 
entry from /my/ menu.lst:

# cat menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Mar 16 13:26:20 EST 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,7)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
    root (hd1,7)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb8 vga=0x317 selinux=0    
resume=/dev/hdb1  splash=silent showopts    initrd /boot/initrd

Ah well...

Again, good luck!

Carl