Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

[John Jolet]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:57, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 4/30/06, Farhan Ahmed <farhanahmed06@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Try executing this command from the grub command line:
> >
> >         find /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2
> >
> > It'll return the partition where it finds the file.. It should be
> > something like (ab0,x).. Then as usual enter the grub commands..
> >
> >         root (ab0,x)
> >         setup (ab0)
> >         quit
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Farhan Ahmed
>
> Hi Farhan and John,
>    First, thanks for the quick responses.
>
> 1) I've booted again from the unversal Install CD. I have two consoles
> open - one is in the install environment and the second is in the
> chroot'ed environment.
>
> 2) In the install environment it tells me that I have /dev/sda3
> mounted at /mnt/gentoo and /dev/sda9 mounted at /mnt/gentoo/boot
>
> 3) In the chroot'ed environment I run grub and then your find command. It
> says
>
> Error 15: File not found
> grub>
>
> 4) In the install environment I can see the kernel file at
> /mnt/gentoo/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2
>
> 5) In the chroot'ed environment I can see the kernel file at
> /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2
>
> 6) I thoought grub supported tab completion but maybe that's only at
> boot time. While running grub in a console in the chroot'ed
> environment tabs are just moving the cursor to the right.
>
>    Let me know what other info you might need to make another guess.
>
>    Thanks again for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
the find command i meant for you to run was at boot time..hit "e" when the 
grub menu comes up, then "c" for command-line

Now, did you get into fdisk and make sure your hda9 had a * in the "boot" 
column?
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