config questions

[Bjorn Meyer]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Bjorn Meyer <bjorn.m.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am as sure as what I have seen in the logs. I do agree, that
> something didn't complete correctly. However that is is little odd
> since it works fine if I just take out the /boot partition and let it
> install to /.
>
> I will try another install and check this before I reboot. If it is
> wrong, I will try to edit and see what the results are.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. I did dig through that a bit, but
> skipped right over that one.
>
> Bjorn
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Eymen Alyaz <alyaz at ins.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Bjorn Meyer schrieb:
>>> ...
>>> Here are the 2 kernel entries that it creates.
>>>
>>> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686
>>> root            (hd0,0)
>>> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
>>> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
>>
>> according to your parition layout, the kernel line should look like:
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hda2, not /dev/hda5.
>> because you partitioned with:
>>
>> (look at your first mail)
>> disk_config disk1
>> primary     /boot     100     defaults     ;boot -j ext3
>> primary     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
>> #logical     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
>> logical     swap      500
>>
I tried again, and the menu list is being set up correctly. With the
above config, it is being set to hda2.
If I set / to be logical it is being set to hda5.
My apologies, I may have pasted this incorrectly.

>> are you sure grub is properly installed?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eymen Alyaz
>>
>>
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