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Hi, |
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If it's in a USB enclosure, you need your /boot to be in a partition on |
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your main |
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disk (the one inside of the laptop), if I'm not mistaking, Fei seams to |
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think so too. |
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The hda* is now an sda* (or sdb*, sdc*, etc) because usb storage stuff |
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emulates scsi. |
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Gabriel |
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Bruce Burden wrote: |
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> Hi gang, |
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> |
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> I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the |
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> windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. |
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> |
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> Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and |
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> moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the |
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> drive specs from "hda0,x" to "hda1,x", and attempted to boot |
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> Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. |
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> |
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> That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with |
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> the: |
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> |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) |
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> |
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> message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or |
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> the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot |
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> process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX |
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> notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. |
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> |
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> Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, |
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> although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does |
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> this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the |
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> correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was |
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> a SCSI notation? |
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> |
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> My GRUB is: |
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> |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 8 |
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> splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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> |
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> |
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> title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 |
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> root (hd1,5) |
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> kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 |
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> |
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> title Windows |
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> root (hd1,0) |
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> makeactive |
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> chainloader +1 |
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> |
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> title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 |
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> kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor |
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> mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 |
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> initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd |
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> |
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> and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I |
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> had hda0,X... |
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> |
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> I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently |
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> all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't |
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> right... |
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> |
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> Thank you, |
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> Bruce |
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> |
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