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> I've been using gentoo for 3 yrs now and using a grub.conf exactly as follows |
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> for all that time. It has <never> failed to work. I did not create |
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> the /boot dir with mkdir, that was done when I cp'd my bzImage |
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> from /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage to /boot, and I did it that way |
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> because that's how the docs said to do it. |
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> tbill@Shooter ~ $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 10 |
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> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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> title=Gentoo (linux kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r10) |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda1 |
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> If you, when you installed gentoo in the first place, placed /boot in its own |
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> partition, then anything you copy to that partition is going to start with |
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> "/boot...". How else are you going to tell the kernel to copy something to |
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> the boot partition when /boot is all you've mounted there? If you, as root, |
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> tell the system to mount the partition where you've installed grub.conf, how |
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> else do you specify it except as "mount /boot". I don't mean to belabor the |
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> point, but.... |
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> So tell grub to look on "(hd0,0)/boot/bzImage" for the kernel to boot, |
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> only,since you don't have a bzImage but a genkernel, change it accordingly: |
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> (hd0,0)/boot/genkernel-*. I assure you that this <does not> "stop your |
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> system from booting fully." |
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> Also, since you're getting error code 15, what you have in /etc/fstab is |
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> completely immaterial. Grub can't even find your kernel, and grub's interest |
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> stops at finding the kernel, so take care of grub's errors first, then worry |
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> about whether your fstab is properly set up. |
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Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the compiled |
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grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) and I had |
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to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and see that |
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I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines. |
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Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics |
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Associate Professor University of Alberta |
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tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs |
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fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA |
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