Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: <snip> > I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an > disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have > hd(2,msdos1) > Ok... to follow myself up, I started looking. There is zero indication in any manpage about the syntax you use. After doing some googling, I finally found <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Device-syntax>, and geez, the Gnu documentation is *dreadful* - why isn't there a syntax description for the root line of a grub entry? Then I found the above, which is *not* with the root directive, and they give examples including msdos1, msdos5, but with no explanation of what those names are - labels? the first and fifth partitions that are msdos format? As I said in my previous post, I've never seen anything like that - it's always root (hdx,y). mark