Classes and disk_config

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Jun 19 16:53:59 CEST 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> I don't have a separate /boot partition, so /boot is in the main filesystem.
> 
> Watch my disk_config file:
> 
> disk_config disk1
> primary  /             3000-5000      rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3
> logical  swap          1000-2000      rw
> logical  /preserve     5000-          rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j 
> ext3 lazyformat
> logical  /home         500-2000       rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j ext3
> 
> So the kernel will end up in /boot/vmlinuz-xxx I would assume that the 
> grub config should contain
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> 
> which is what the automated install writes to the config.
> 
> But it needs
> 
> root (hd0,1)
> 
> in order to work; for no apparent reason.
> 
> Interesting enough, this had worked before on the very same box, so I 
> must have changed someting ...

could you take a look at the partition table with 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and see
how the disk is really partitioned?


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c u
henning



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