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I think I experienced your problem. If you don't have a /boot partition, then the path to the kernel is referenced from /boot (because its inside the real "/" fs). If you have a /boot partition, then the path to your kernel is referenced from "/".
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What worries me is that you mentioned you get a kernel panic which implies the boot loader was able to locate the kernel. Can you capture a bit of the output from the panic? How large is your "/"?
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Brian Micek
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On Monday 02 June 2008 03:29:32 pm Mansour wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am trying to install gentoo on a desktop machine. I downloaded the
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> minimal CD and followed the instruction in the quick installation. Now,
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> I have a problem either in the grub configuration or in kernel and I
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> need help to figure this one out.
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> I have existing partitions for windows and my previous Fedora (/home
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> directory), therefore I installed gentoo on /dev/hda3. The problem is I
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> get a kernel panic when I try to boot. In grub I am using (hd0,2) as my
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> root, because I don't want to write anything to the mbr. After editing
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> grub.conf, I run a grub shell, and execute the commands root(hd0,2) then
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> setup(hd0,2). Then tried to reboot.
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> Here the relevant part of grub.conf:
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> ============================
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> title Linux
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> root (hd0,2)
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> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel root=/dev/hda3
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> =================================
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> I don't have a separate partition for boot, it's on the root "/"
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> filesystem.
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> Can anyone tell what's going on ? If there's missing info please let me
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> know, as everyone has different way when troubleshooting a problem.
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