Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: "sigfrido V. Ortiz C." <sigfridov@×××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:02:57
Message-Id: 45D9BB72.8010205@aim.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Intel Core 2 Duo Processor by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Thanks a lot, I´ll try soon I have time, now I´m going to a business
2 trip , so I´ll spend 2 week outside my home, then as soon I be back I
3 will look for my real solution.
4 Thanks a lot again, my Windows Vista is Working and it is enought to
5 work mean while <i finish my gentoo installation.
6 Regards
7 Sigfrido
8
9
10 bss03@××××××××××.net wrote:
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12 >On Sunday 18 February 2007 20:31, sigfrido V. Ortiz C. wrote:
13 >
14 >
15 >>I did, but something is wrong, I´ll comment soon.
16 >>I can start with Windows Vista [32 bit edition], editing GRUB comand, it
17 >>is because I wrote in my grub.conf (sda0.x) and changuing it to
18 >>(hda0,x) the Windows vista run fine.
19 >>
20 >>
21 >
22 >Yeah, grub never uses sd* names, always hd* and always in the order
23 >presented
24 >by BIOS (as opposed to Linux, which presents them as they are discovered
25 >through device probing with names dependent on the module/subsystem).
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >>Gento can not run yet, nut as soon a have more time I will try it again.
30 >>
31 >>
32 >
33 >You can probably use grub TAB-completion to determine the correct (hd*)
34 >setting. Generally, your boot partition will have a vmlinux or vmlinuz
35 >file
36 >on it. So, the workflow would go something like:
37 >
38 >GRUB> (hd<TAB>
39 >0 1
40 >GRUB> (hd0,<TAB>
41 >0 1 2 3
42 >GRUB> (hd0,0)/vm<TAB>
43 >GRUB> (hd0,1)/vm<TAB>
44 >GRUB> (hd0,2)/vm<TAB>
45 >vmlinuz vmlinuz.old vmlinuz-gentoo-2.6.19-r2 vmlinuz-gentoo-2.6.18-r6
46 >
47 >At this point you know your /boot partition is (hd0,2) in grub-speak.
48 >
49 >If don't have a dedicated /boot partition, and instead it's part of the /
50 >filesystem you'll want to look for boot/vmlinux or boot/vmlinuz instead.
51 >This may work even if you have a /boot parition, since some
52 >ditros/administrator put a symbolic link "boot" to "." in /boot when it's
53 >on
54 >a partition by itself.
55 >
56 >
57 >