On 08/23/12 17:41, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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). err, sorry that was my mistake ... i copy pasted from wrong terminal (from my desktop fedora 16 grub 2 instead from the centos server where i look initially) so, to wrap things up: on my centos 5 storage i have root (hd0,0) that stayed the same no matter how many block devices i added or removed from my hardware card... but in fstab i use only UUIDs HTH, Adrian > > mark > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >