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Hi gang, |
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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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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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That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with |
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the: |
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VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) |
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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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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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My GRUB is: |
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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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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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title Windows |
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root (hd1,0) |
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makeactive |
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chainloader +1 |
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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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and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I |
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had hda0,X... |
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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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Thank you, |
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Bruce |
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"I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. |
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- Thuganlitha |
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The Power and the Prophet |
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Robert Don Hughes |
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