On Wednesday 09 December 2009 03:03:12 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/12/09 02:04 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
.... (sdc8) Not sure what you mean about the "root=position". You mean as an option on the grub menu? You mean /dev/sdc8 ? or (hd2,7) ?
The kernel lines in your 11.2 menu.lst stanzas include something like:
kernel...vmlinuz...root=/dev/disk/yadayadayadayadayadayadayadayadayada showopts...
While in the Grub menu part of the boot process, substitute /dev/sdc8 for the .../yadas in your menu choice and report back what happens when you proceed.
Oh, wait a minute. SUSE stupidly puts the showopts parameter after the root= on kernel lines, and moves it back every time perl-Bootloader gets run after manually putting it in the more useful pre-root= position. That prevents you from seeing the root= section while in the GFX Grub menu.
To do what I wrote requires you exit the GFX Grub menu to the text Grub menu to edit the kernel line root= section. -- I have no idea what you are telling me here, not understanding the "SUSE way" and do not know what you mean by the GFX Grub menu. If you mean editing
Felix I edited the menu.lst as you suggested. Changing /dev/disk/yadayada to /dev/sdc8. Tried to boot and now it tells me it cannot find /dev/sdc8 rather than the /dev/disk/by-label it did previously. Interestingly the line above it in the boot sequence also says it cannot find /dev/sdc3 (which is the resume line) in menu.lst) and states ignoring then continues on to the next line about not finding /dev/sdc8. menu.lst that is easy. I have tried every iteration of configuration I can possibly think of. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org