Grub menu entry without "root=" in SLES11SP2 machine

Grzegorz Dwornicki gd1100 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 03:32:18 EST 2013


On the Sylicon Valey Linux User Group at the "Kernel Walktrought" (you can
watch it on youtube) Jim said something about kernel remembering its root
devide durring compilation soo when you don't use root arg it will use that
setting inside of its image. But someone might verify this

G.
22 sty 2013 09:22, "Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> Hi Chaitanya
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Chaitanya Gotkhindikar
> <cg011235 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to write a script that parse /boot/grub/menu.lst. On SLES11
> SP2
> > installed machine
> > I observed that no "root=<device>" entry specified in menu entry of
> > grub.However, the system
> > boots up properly on reboots.
>
> I forgot where I saw it too, try to unpack the initrd and find if
> there is something that "helps" the kernel to find the root
> partition/device
>
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
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>
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