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--- Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Happy new year! |
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Happy new year to you all to! |
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> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:16 -0800, BRM wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find |
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> the |
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> > kernel when I select "Gentoo Linux" or try to manually run the |
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> lines. I |
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> > tried using "find" at the grub command prompt during the boot |
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> process, |
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> > but it couldn't find it either. I haven't tried the Slackware |
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> kernel |
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> > yet, as I am mostly concerned about the Gentoo kernel. |
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> have you tried grubs completion? if you type "kernel (hd1,1)/" and |
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> then |
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> <tab> it should try and complete the line for you. (from the grub |
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> command prompt, once you've booted into the grub shell) It could be |
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> possible that your bios / grub have swapped the drive assignment |
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> around |
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> during boot. Try all your (hdx,y) combinations with grub completion |
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> until you find one that has /gentoo on it. |
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"Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Your system will look at the first device that the BIOS finds for a |
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> bootloader. That 'should' be /dev/hda, but it could well be /dev/sda |
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> (check device map and also use Grub's tab completion to see what the |
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> BIOS/Grub sees first). |
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Thanks. I had tried tab-completion while at the grub command-line from |
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the CD during install, but it wasn't working. When Grub came up, it was |
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thinking hdb equalled hd0 instead of hd1. So while it worked fine with |
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hd1 from the CD (it didn't like hd0 then), it was mixed up when grub |
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actually ran. |
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Any suggestions on how to fix this so that grub runs well from within |
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Linux? |
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"Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Check your /boot/grub/device.map to make sure that devices correspond |
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> to the expected grub nomenclature. |
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Also - (per Mick's e-mail) |
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> > Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot |
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> or |
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> > /. |
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> it shouldn't interfere with /boot or / |
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That's what I thought, I just figured I mention it just in case. |
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> > What am I missing? |
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> don't know, hope my hints can help. |
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Thanks, it sure did. :-> |
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Ben |
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