/boot/grub/grub.conf + modification = ?

92b16vx · #1 12th July 2005, 12:55 AM

So, does anyone know why when I remove rghb quiet from behind "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00" in my "/boot/grub/grubconf" it causes my external HD and thumbdrive not to mount?

tashirosgt · #2 12th July 2005, 03:07 PM

(!) ...we give up. Give us a hint. Try removing "rhgb" and the "quiet" seperately and see if one of them alone causes the problem.

92b16vx · #3 12th July 2005, 07:20 PM

Actually, I did, and it didn't mount them either time. Then I put it back and it did, then I rebooted once more, and the external didn't mount

I guess it's just screwy.

tejas · #4 12th July 2005, 07:29 PM

Well pretty obvious -

rhgb stands for redhat graphical boot. It is responsible for drawing that blue box aroung the screen when it says
starting foo [OK]

quiet just makes sure the kernel doesn't spit out 1000s of messages while loading

92b16vx · #5 12th July 2005, 07:34 PM

That's what I was thinking, but there was 0 problems till I did that, then all of a sudden the external and thumb wouldn't mount, I changed it back and there they were. One time when I booted into Windows, and then back, they didn't mount with it corrected.

92b16vx · #6 20th July 2005, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tashirosgt

(!) ...we give up. Give us a hint. Try removing "rhgb" and the "quiet" seperately and see if one of them alone causes the problem.

Ok, I did it a couple times both ways, and if I remove "quiet" alone, it works fine, external and thumbdrive mounts, if I remove "rhgb" or both they will not mount, and gives an error during boot, about needing to know what filesystem then [FAILED]

Is there a reason for this, ok some kind of correlation between them?

tashirosgt · #7 20th July 2005, 03:26 PM

Could you quote the exact error message? (It might be in /var/log/messages.)

92b16vx · #8 20th July 2005, 04:02 PM

I can't seem to get into /var/log/messages I keep getting not enough permissions

if you know how, that would help.

But the message is mounting filesystem: mount: you must specify filesystem type.

92b16vx · #9 20th July 2005, 04:27 PM

Bah, logged on as root, and got in. I can't seem to find the message anywhere in /var/log anywhere else to get the exact message?

It is after it initializes eth0, you know, when you can hide details/showdetails.