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Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

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Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 13:30 (UTC-0500):

> 	The sample that Greg Wooledge showed looked very close to
> how my grub.cfg looked after doctoring the drive references to
> point to hd0,1msdos.  and I tried booting that way and set the
> root parameter to /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 which is the
> one that grub chose, again non-existent.  /dev/sdb1 is actually a
> Zipdisk drive but I tried it anyway since there is no zipdisk in
> there.
										
IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l or fdisk
-l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first
partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 would
have been/be correct.
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	based on faith, not based on science.

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A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-05 19:50 +0200
  Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-06-05 20:10 +0200
  Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-05 20:30 +0200
    Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-05 21:30 +0200
  Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-06-05 21:30 +0200
    Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-05 23:30 +0200
      Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-06 01:20 +0200
      Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-06-06 01:50 +0200
      Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-06-06 02:20 +0200
        Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-06-06 04:30 +0200
        Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-06 14:30 +0200
  Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-06 13:20 +0200
    Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-06 20:40 +0200
      Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-06-06 22:40 +0200
        Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-07 00:00 +0200
          Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-07 03:10 +0200
          Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-06-07 04:40 +0200
            Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-07 14:20 +0200
            Grub Success at Last "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-06-09 00:20 +0200
              Re: Grub Success at Last, but way offtopic Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-06-09 01:00 +0200
    Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-07 20:40 +0200

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