Re: problems booting linux through solaris grub

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Eileen Loh wrote:

> I'm trying to boot linux through solaris grub.  The linux kernel looks like 
> it's starting up, but then seems to get an error while trying to mount ext3 
> filesystem, and then the kernel crashes.  The linux kernel is standard Redhat 
> linux 4.0 installed on a v40z (amd64).  Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Here's my menu.lst entry:
> 
> title Redhat
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.ELsmp ro root=LABEL/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.ELsmp.img

For starters, take out the "rhgb quiet" so you can see what's going on

It looks like you typo'ed the kernel line, though. It should be

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/

later,
chris