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[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Taylor Cody L. Contr 502 AOS/PETS wrote:

>The grub entry for the
>original kernel shows root=/dev/hdc3.  But, it also has an entry for a .img
>ramdisk.
>
Having re-read your original post, I don't think this is possible.  When 
you have a separate /home partition along with one or more extended 
partitions, your root partition / will be bumped to hdc5 or further 
(unless you "force" / to be a primary partition).  Your original 
grub.conf should have shown root=/dev/hdc5

>Would the ramdisk entry in grub fix the wrong root= entry in grub
>allowing / to be found?
>
The ramdisk entry allows modules that are not compiled into the kernel 
to be loaded during boot time; it has nothing to do with solving your 
problem.

>Also, would fedora prefer to have / on hdc5 because XP is on hdc1?
>  
>
For some reason, Fedora prefers to have / on extended partition no 
matter whether  your have XP or not.

>I did not make a ramdisk, I just changed root=/dev/hdc3 to root=/dev/hdc5
>and grub found my / partition and everything went smoothly. 
>Any info will be appreciated.  Thanks.  -Cody 
>  
>
You do not need a ramdisk because all the modules you need have been 
compiled into the kernel.  If you change to a new hardware, you may not 
be that lucky.  wayne