Re: grub-install to a partition

[Barry Jackson]

On 08/10/10 10:24, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Friday 08,October,2010 04:29 PM, Barry Jackson wrote:
> > I can boot the system directly with:-
> >
> > menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64' {
> > linux (hd0,21)/boot/vmlinuz
> > initrd (hd0,21)/boot/initrd.img
> > }
> >
> > ...but that uses sdaxx device identifiers which I am trying to avoid in
> > favour of labels.
> >
> > Is there a later version that fixes this?
>
>
> Use this
>
> menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64' {
> search --no-floppy --label --set 2010_1_64_root
> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=LABEL=2010_1_64_root ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img
> }
>
>
> Goh Lip
>
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Thanks Goh,
But I can't get that entry to display in the menu.
I don't see any syntax errors, maybe you do?
I added the first two of these for testing:-


menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64 root' {
search --no-floppy --label --set 2010_1_64_root
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=LABEL=2010_1_64_root ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img
}

menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64 multiboot' {
search --no-floppy --label --set 2010_1_64_root
multiboot /boot/grub/core.img
}

menuentry 'Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64' {
linux (hd0,21)/boot/vmlinuz
initrd (hd0,21)/boot/initrd.img
}

The multiboot entry displays OK and works, but your suggestion 
('Mandriva 2010.1 x86-64 root') does not appear in the menu for testing!

Any ideas?

Cheers - Barry