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On Sunday 30 October 2005 03:48 am, DR GM SEDDON wrote: |
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> Karol Krizka wrote: |
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> >On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:16, DR GM SEDDON wrote: |
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> >>my grub.conf: |
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> >>' default 0 |
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> >>timeout 5 |
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> >>splashimage=(hd0.0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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> >> |
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> >>title=linux-2.6.13 |
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> >>root (hd0.0) |
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> >>kernel /genkernel--x86_64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc |
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> >>ramdisk-8193 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev |
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> >>initrd /initrd' |
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SNIP |
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> > |
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> >>>>I noticed your files are in / not /boot where mine are. Should I |
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> >>>>mv them? |
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> >>> |
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> >>>They're in / only on the boot partition ie they are in the root of |
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> >>>(hd0,0). |
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> >>> |
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> >>>If you are specifying your files as living in /boot on the boot |
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> >>>partition then this could stop your system booting fully. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>Perhaps you could post your grub.conf? |
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SNIP |
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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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Bill Tetrault |
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Madison, WI |
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