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On 10/31/05, Mihai Rusu <dizzy@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi there |
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> This might be just something stupid I'm missing but here it goes: |
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> after installing "another" OS these days I needed the usual trick to |
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> boot my gentoo hdd partition from a gentoo x86_64 cd kernel and run |
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> grub-install (the "other" OS overwrittes the MBR at installation). |
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> As usual I try to boot a mini x86_64 gentoo installcd like: |
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> gentoo-nofb root=/dev/hda2 noinitrd |
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> This works well with 2005.0 (and the older images I have tried, even |
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> when I was running x86) but does not with 2005.1. It seems to ignore |
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> "noinitrd" parameter and still load it and continue the normal cd |
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> booting sequence instead of mounting my hdd partition as root after the |
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> kernel boot :( |
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> Any hints ? |
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Even then, you can still mount /dev/hda2, then chroot into it, and |
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finish your grub installation, can't you? :) |
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-- Joe |
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Those who can count, and those who can't. |
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