Re: root seems to be incorrectly set after install

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:41:06PM -0500, George Lengel wrote:
> When I reboot I get thrown into rescue mode and typing set shows
> grub>prefix= (hd0,7)/boot/grub
> grub>root=hd0,7
> 
> If I manually set root to (hd2,7) and prefix to (hd2,7)/boot/grub I can 
> insmod normal and then running normal proceeds perfectly. It makes no 
> sense to me why it is prepending hd0 instead of hd2. I have searched all 
> over for a solution and the closest I came was someone a few months ago 
> posted a similar problem. It was suggested to delete system.map and 
> regenerate it, but this did not help.

Sounds like grub_boot_drive not having the right info.  It works when received
via multiboot, but not from boot.img.

Does the attached patch fix your problem?  Just a guess ...

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