Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4656 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 17:13 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:10:33 -0600, M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following:
> 
> (^_^)On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:36, charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> (^_^)> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
> (^_^)> title openSUSE 10.2
> (^_^)      root (/dev/sda,7)  <<=============	 THIS IS WRONG
> (^_^)>    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda8 vga=0x317    
> (^_^)> resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
> (^_^)>    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
> (^_^)	Your root specification is not correct. Should be:
> (^_^)
> (^_^)	root (hd0,6)
> (^_^)
> (^_^)	... and that is assuming that the /boot partition is on /dev/sda7.  (they 
> (^_^)number from zero)
> (^_^)
> (^_^)	
> (^_^)-- 
> (^_^)Kind regards,
> (^_^)
> (^_^)M Harris     <
> 
> 
> So instead of sda7, sda8, and sda9, it should be hd0,6, hd0,7 and hd0,8? 
> hd0,6 would still be the swap partition, correct? 

  No it should still be sda?, if sda7 is your swap, and sda8 is your /
then your grub menu list ought to point to /dev/sda8 and not /dev/sda7
for your root partition.

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