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Hello, |
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I wonder if some wise person here can give me some suggestion on how to |
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solve this problem. |
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I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I |
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am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave |
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primary device. |
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So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate |
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directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I |
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copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same |
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kernel). |
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Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my |
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grub.conf like so: |
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default 0 |
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timeout 10 |
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title=minimal linux on slave primary device |
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root (hd1,0) |
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 |
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root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device |
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/boot/vmlinuz is indeed my kernel (I didn't bother with a separate |
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boot partition ) |
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finally root=/dev/hdb1 tells grub that the root is on the first |
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partition of my slave primary device |
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I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the |
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boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me |
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"Error 15: File not found". |
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It doesn't tell me which file isn't found, but I've learned that this |
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usually means the kernel. So I double and triple check the spelling and |
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the location. It's right, unless I'm going blind. |
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As an experiment, I added these lines to grub.conf on hda, so that I |
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could use grub on hda but boot from my kernel and root on hdb: |
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title=minimal linux on slave primary device |
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root (hd1,0) |
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 |
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this worked, which perhaps suggests that my grub setup on hdb is faulty. |
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So I reinstalled grub on hdb, but it still fails with the same error. |
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Lastly the grub install reported no errors. |
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Any suggestions? |
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Sincerely, |
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Michael Shiloh |
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