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diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml index 355a7eea3..1284360e1 100644 --- a/chapter08/grub.xml +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -193,7 +193,11 @@ grub> boot</userinput></screen> <para>Update the MBR with:</para> -<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup</userinput></screen> +<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup '<DEVICE>'</userinput></screen> + + <para>Change the DEVICE above to your boot disk, normally '(hd0)' or /dev/sda. + If using (hd0) be sure to escape the parentheses with backslashes or single + quotes to prevent the shell from interpreting them as a sub-shell.</para> <para>This program uses the following defaults and are correct if you did not deviate from the instructions above:</para> @@ -203,9 +207,17 @@ grub> boot</userinput></screen> <listitem><para>core image - core.img </para></listitem> <listitem><para>directory - /boot/grub</para></listitem> <listitem><para>device map - device.map</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>root device - guessed </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>default root setting - guessed</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> + <note><para>The root setting is the default value if a 'set root' + instruction is not found in grub.cfg. This is the partition that is + searched for the kernel and other supporting files. It is different from + the 'root=' parameter on the 'linux' line in the configuration line. The + later is the partition the kernel mounts as '/'. In the example grub.cfg + above, both values point to /dev/sda2, but if there is a separate boot + partition, they will be different.</para></note> + </sect2> </sect1> |