Re: Which device did I boot from?

[Benoit Donnette]

OK, what about something like :

cat /proc/mounts

which will tell you which devices are mounted ? unless you have a /boot
artition that you won't mount (possible), but in this case the kernel
would lie in /kernels/bzImage.

However you need to know that you actually booted from (hd0,0).

Benoit.


> On 2007/06/22 05:41 (GMT-0500) Dallas Clement apparently typed:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how to determine which device Linux booted from.  I
>> am using GRUB to boot Linux.  My menu.lst config is this:
>
>> title           GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21.1
>> root            (hd0,0)
>> kernel          /boot/kernels/bzImage
>
>> Once booted from Linux, I would like to be able to tell which Linux
>> device, i.e. /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx corresponds to hd0.
>
>> Is there a way to determine this?
>
> Interesting. I'd like to know if this is actually possible too. Maybe what
> you actually need would come from:
>
> cat /boot/grub/device.map
>
> Related:
> cat /etc/fstab | grep /boot ; nothing if no separate /boot partition
> mount | grep " / "
> cat /proc/cmdline
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