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On Friday 21 July 2006 01:35, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. |
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> (big compile left to complete). |
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> The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 |
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> boot |
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> <system then boots; Issueing the second command, grub finds the |
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> kernel with a few characters and a tab> |
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> The system will not boot from any of the entries I've tried in |
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> grub.conf: |
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> Notice I've tried all sorts of partitions for the root=/dev/ entry. |
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> #0 |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 |
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> root(hd0,1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 |
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wrong |
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> |
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> #1 |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 |
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> root(hd0,1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 |
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wrong |
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> #2 |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 |
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> root(hd0,1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 |
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wrong |
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> #3 |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 |
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> root(hd0,1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 |
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looks good, but try this: |
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kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 |
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hope it helps. |
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if you use make install a vmlinuz symlink is created, so you don't need all |
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your kernels in grub.conf. Only vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. |
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