Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:32:02AM -0400, Gerald Waugh mentioned:
> > > I believe you can specify this in lilo.conf
> > > boot = /dev/hda2
> > What does /etc/fstab say?
>
> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
>  Does the prom or anything like it look for an /etc/fstab - do remember
> that the /etc/fstab in this case would be on /dev/hda2.

The prom should know where the master boot record is.
The kernel looks for and uses it when it mounts the drives

>  As a workaround, I copied the files from hda1:/boot into hda2:/boot, and
> set the "boot filesystem" in the PROM to be hda2. It will boot fine now.
> I'm still curious though if it is possible for /boot and / to be different
> partitions.

Yes, /boot and / can be different partitions.
Your fstab looks a little odd. I am used to seeing more /dev/hdx.
maybe its redhat 7.3.


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