GRUB

[John Rowan]

I recently upgraded my Red Hat Linux to v 7.2.  Not knowing what GRUB was I opted to use that loader as Red Hat saw fit to include it in this release.  Having done so all is working well except I've lost my ability to access the reference partition on my Compaq Proliant 5000 R's drive array.  There are 5 drives of 4.3GB each connected via a Smart2P (PCI) RAID controller.  The reference partition is on /dev/ida/c0d0p1.  Under the LILO boot loader I had the option of puting in an "other" option where upon boot LILO would allow me to access the reference partition.  Below is a /etc/lilo.conf from a similar machine.  I tried entering something similar into the /etc/grub.conf but it errors out if selected on boot.  I went through the help / info but could not find anything specific to reference partition booting.  Is there something I'm missing or is this something to be added in a subsequent release?

 

 cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/ida/c0d0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux
append="mem=exactmap address@hidden address@hidden"

 

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2smp
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2smp.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1

 

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
        label=linux-up
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1
other=/dev/ida/c0d0p3
optional
label=Compaq_Diags