f9 grub kernel arguments and kickstart questions

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 14 05:06:01 UTC 2008




--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net>
> Subject: f9 grub kernel arguments and kickstart questions
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 9:54 PM
> Hi,
> 
> I see that my f9 installs have a grub kernel argument
> 'root=UUID={hex}'
>
In my computer, only the default Fedora 9 kernel installs such an entry, the others appear to be normal

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 ro root=UUID=72f4731d-a8f3-4c89-a4da-98bc778e88f5 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64.i

The rest I do not know, I only can respond as what I have seen here :)

Hopefully someone can tell you, if you need to worry or not?

> 
> Could someone tell me a little about this? I've used
> things like 
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 for seems like ages.
> 
> Does this impact things like disk cloning or jumbling packs
> between 
> machines?
> 
> If so, is there a way to specify the older method in a
> kickstart file?
> 
> Also I know I can 'append' things in kickstart like
> "vga=791 acpi=force 
> reboot=b', but can I remove the 'rhgb quiet'?
>
Yes you may.  Booting still works fine :)
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> -- 

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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