Re: (no subject): grub recog of 3drives (2 linux)

[Melissa Golter]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:

>  > all drives are mapped but, no matter if i use 
>  > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
>  > or
>  > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=/dev/sdd2 hda=ide-scsi
>  > 
>  > I get error 15
>  > root (hd2,0)
>  >  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>  > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
>  > (or
>  > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=/dev/sdd2 hda=ide-scsi)
>  > 
>  > Error 15: File not found
>  > 
>  > / is on partition 2 on sdd (hd2)
>                                ^^^
> 
> How do you know that this is the case?
> 

a. well, i did put it there when i installed the OS.  But, also, when i
mount sdc (as rh7.3 on hd1 calls it), i can see in /etc/fstab that / is on
the second partition

-- grub.conf reads partition num 1 on hd2 as having filesystem type
ext2fs, and partition type 0x83

the problem is that grub reports the possible hd2 kernel files as being
vmlinuz-2.4.18-3, not rh9's vmlinuz-2.4.20-8...which is strange, because,
again, in hd2 the fstab data is reported in LABELs, which is rh9 jargon,
yes? 


mebbe i have a faulty grub, but i doubt i'd have 2 bad grubs in a row. 
Still, every other time i query root (hd1,0) kernel / info i get either
only filesystem tyupand partition type info, or an error...and every other
time i query grub.conf for root (hd2,0) kernel/ i get the possible fields
or just filesystem type and partition type info.  (and that is not my
typing, either as i just replace 2 with 1 and hit return...) 

how to alter the kernel info grub has?  I cannot tell from the manual (i
feel like i am going in circles...) and don't know enuf to use setup or
kernel commands.  I tried reinstalling linux, but just got the situation
in reverse (neither grub recognized the other linux disk -- just treats
them like an extension of itself, more or less...