From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753518AbZL3U5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:57:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752934AbZL3U5K (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:57:10 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com ([209.85.217.211]:45853 "EHLO mail-gx0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764AbZL3U5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:57:09 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=vXyGg735PDUcIZjjkwhXaWOwc36sIKCpSvM/3qxuMRq5uYoLZ0aY/bdLnJO1jpSxxM ZIiCNDOFgCn6VPV0mD/daEPc8BefJT9EjIl5lh4HJxjzGrPiy1PQQ5XbQGLW/B/op53+ m+eEzWl0W72wWkI/bGbpgdbiSoX8ZjZKUAc/M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:27:08 +0530 Message-ID: <31cff80d0912301257r2a904701jda31d84b72405e01@mail.gmail.com> Subject: booting with linux kernel 2.6.32.2 From: ranjith kumar To: "linux.kernel" , linux-kernel , linux-net@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am using fedora 10. I downloaded linux kernel 2.6.32.2 and run the follwing commands to build and install it. 1) make defconfig 2) make 4)make modules 5)make all 6)make modules_install 7)make install After that the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst are: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda 2 # 3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file 4 # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that 5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. 6 # root (hd0,2) 7 # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 8 # initrd /initrd-version.img 9 #boot=/dev/sda 10 default=2 11 timeout=5 12 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz 13 hiddenmenu 14 title Fedora (2.6.32.2) 15 root (hd0,2) 16 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.2 ro root=UUID=80c4c9bd-8110-4f79-8bdc-dd69e38bf299 17 initrd /initrd-2.6.32.2.img 18 title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686) 19 root (hd0,2) 20 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=80c4c9bd-8110-4f79-8bdc-dd69e38bf299 21 initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img 22 title Windows Vista 23 rootnoverify (hd0,0) 24 chainloader +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) When I rebooted the machine and selected "Fedora (2.6.32.2)" from grub's menu, why fedora(old fedora 10 which was there initially) is booting instead of linux kernel 2.6.32.2 ??? 2) what does "ro root=UUID=80c4c9bd-8110-4f79-8bdc-dd69e38bf299" means in /boot/grub/menu.lst ? Thanks in advance.