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Re: Booting from alternate hard drive


From: Chris Jones
Subject: Re: Booting from alternate hard drive
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 21:42:50 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 05:36:56PM EDT, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

[..]

> Le 02/05/2018 à 23:16, Chris Jones a écrit :
> "Some kind" does not provide much information. There are many kinds of
> kernel panic. I suspect that the kernel panic is caused by the lack of a
> "initrd" command in the menu entry. root=UUID= requires an initrd or
> initramfs because the kernel itself does not know anything about filesystem
> UUIDs (only about partition UUIDs, PARTUUID). An initramfs can be embedded
> in the kernel image, but most often it is in a separate file named initrd*.

Added back the missing "initrd" line/command at the end of the menu
entry in /etc/grub.c/40_custom and that took care of the problem.

Thanks,

CJ


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