Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:49:24
Message-Id: 43637D4C.1050107@manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting by Craig Webster
1 Hi,
2
3 >> I finished the inst. and rebooted. It failed, so I booted onto cd,
4 >> remounted boot and / Then chrooted. I altered grub.conf to fix a
5 >> typo. reran grub-install. Rebooted. It still fails. I noticed I
6 >> have no '/linuxrc'. On / or /boot, how can I generate this. Do I
7 >> need to involve 'proc'?
8 >
9 >
10 > How does it fail exactly? Error messages are a very useful debugging
11 > aid ;)
12 > There aren't errors as such it just fails then sends me back to the
13 > grub menu. I have a feeling I am going wrong with the root=(hd0,0).
14 > On my box, hda1 is /boot and hda3 is / as in the instructions, since a
15 > home , usr and var are not necessry here. should root=hd0,2 since I
16 > am using hda3 as /?
17
18 Thanks.
19
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