[ILUG] Kernel path

[A. Dreyer (ILUG)]

On 02/06/12 17:21, Braun Brelin wrote:
> That's the problem. There is no grub or elilo conf file that I can find.
> Running "find / -name 'vmlinu*' returns nothing.  Frankly, I'm baffled.
>
> Braun
> On Feb 6, 2012 5:01 PM, "Colm Buckley"<colm at tuatha.org>  wrote:
>
>> The currently-running kernel need not be in the local filesystem hierarchy
>> at all; it boots before the local filesystems are mounted, using
>> independent processes.  This frequently happens in virtual machine
>> environments, for example.
>>
>> Is this a local system?  How does it boot (using grub, lilo, etc?)
>>
>> Colm

Hi,

Try..

$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/sda6_crypt ro quiet

But as Colm said before it doesn't need to be on a local filesystem..
It is quite common to start virtualized systems from kernel images 
located outside the guest filesystem.


Achim

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Achim Dreyer
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Senior Unix & Network Admin