On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:47:46 -0500, Carl Hartung <suselinux@cehartung.com> took time to say the following: (^_^)On Tue January 30 2007 09:06, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: (^_^)<snip> (^_^)> While I'm thinking about it. Going back to the menu.lst file. Some have (^_^)> said that /dev/sda,7 was wrong, but wouldn't that be correct seeing that (^_^)> root was on device sda8? (^_^) (^_^)Charles, (^_^) (^_^)You'll get a lot farther, faster, if you confirm your device.map and try (^_^)booting with the repaired fstab & menu.lst I posted. AFAIK, "/dev/sda,7" is (^_^)not valid anywhere... it is inconsistent with *nix device 'notation' (^_^)(i.e. "/dev/sda7"... no comma) as well as inconsistent with grub's 'notation' (^_^)(i.e. "(hd0,6)" in 'grub-speak' is the first hard drive, seventh partition, (^_^)since grub starts counting at zero.) (^_^) (^_^)hth & regards, (^_^) (^_^)Carl Ok, just throwing that out there because someone else brought that up earlier and I have seen it in my travels to different sites I have visited. Well, guess I better get back on the road. :-) Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org