On Feb 6, 2008 11:21 PM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.com wrote:
2]Tried sda9,/dev/sda9,(sda,8),(sda,9),all have the same effect that is the valid root block device is not found.
Did you try (sda8) when you gave root=/dev/sda9? GRUB doesn't use sda, it will always be (hdX,Y). So, it will go something like root (hd0,8) kernel genkernel-whatever root=/dev/sda9 initrd initrd.img-whatever