Incredible frustration at Grub/linux!

[William Park]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:26:31AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I have been -trying- to setup a server with a '/' filesystem of 
> 'reiserfs' for later use under LVM and some HA software but I have been 
> absolutely unable to get past the starting gate and on top of feeling 
> flat out stupid I am also getting terribly frustrated.
> 
>   I want to do one, little simple thing - make a backup of '/' to 
> another drive/partition and then reboot using it. It seems that 
> absolutely no matter what I do, what file I edit or what I try to force 
> the system (Fedora Core 1) INSISTS on using the original '/' (in this 
> case '/dev/sda1'). I don't what the heck I am doing wrong but I am about 
> to blow a gasket. I have never been so fsck'ing mad at Linux before. Why 
> is it so damn hard to mount a different '/' partition?!

I assume backup went okey, and you're trying to boot from /dev/sdb1
(eg) instead of original /dev/sda1.  

1.  Locate grub.conf (or, whatever that is in grub) and search for
	root=/dev/sda1
    and change it to '/dev/sdb1'.  Then, write to MBR.

2.  When you choose kernel from 'boot:' prompt (or, whatever), add
    kernel parameter as usual, ie.
	linux root=/dev/sdb1

3.  Or, as last resort, write '/dev/sdb1' right into the kernel, using
	rdev vmlinuz /dev/sdb1


> 
>   Anyway, I am using Grub because it is the only boot loader available 
> on Fedora. I have tried reading the docs and am doing so again after 
> sending this to see if I missed something simple...
> 
>   Bah, if nothing else this is a rant that may help me cool down enough 
> to find my problem. Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Madison
> 
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