grub and xfs

[samuel verstraete]

the latter is pretty much how i have set up my grub config....

has worked always and i never needed that extra root (hd0,2)

title   2.6.14
kernel  /2.6.14 root=/dev/sda2 ro dev=udev devfs=nomount acpi=off vga=794

gr,S.

On 12/20/05, Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> I've noticed something about odd using xfs and grub.
>
> Normally I have partitions setup as swap, /boot (ext2), / and /home. For the
> longest time I have used reiserfs for all but of course swap. In
> the /boot/grub/menu.lst I have always used;
>
> title   2.6.15-rc2
> kernel  /2.6.15-rc2
> root (hd0,2)
>
> and never had a problem. So just for geewhiz on another box. I setup the same
> partition scheme but with / and /home as XFS. Using the same setup noted
> above in /boot/grub/menu.lst the system will not boot... it can't find root.
> However, leaving everything else the same and changing the kernel line to ;
>
> kernel  /2.6.15-rc2 root=/dev/hda3
>
> the system will boot.
>
> I do not know if this is a grub problem, an XFS problem or if there is
> something askew with our mount scripts.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
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