Re: Booting a reiserfs root partition with a grub floppy

[Derrik Pates]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Volker Augustin wrote:

> Well, I already did that. More specifically, I followed the FAQ section "How
> to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface". I also edited the
> menu.1st before to (supposedly) match my system. The kernel boots, then I get
> a kernel panic and am told that the root file system cannot be mounted. My

Does it give a major/minor pair as part of the panic message to let you
know what device it was trying to mount? This doesn't sound like a GRUB
problem - if it's getting the kernel booted, then it's out of GRUB's
hands.

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