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Happy New Year! |
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BRM wrote: |
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> The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as |
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> the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. |
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Yes. |
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> The system has 3 hard drives: hda, hdb, and sda; as well as a dvd drive |
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> (hdc). |
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Check your /boot/grub/device.map to make sure that devices correspond to the |
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expected grub nomenclature. Use <tab-completion> after you run # grub for |
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root to find out where Grub thinks its root fs resides. |
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> /dev/hdb2 has the following structure: |
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> - list of all my Slackware kernels |
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> - gentoo/bzImage |
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> - gentoo/bzImage_2-6-23-gentoo-r3 |
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> - grub/ |
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> Below is my grub.conf (minus comment lines): |
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> timeout 30 |
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> default 0 |
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> fallback 1 |
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> title Gentoo Linux |
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> root (hd1,1) |
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> kernel /gentoo/bzImage root=/dev/hdb1 |
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I assume from what you said above that when you run ls -la /gentoo/bzImage |
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you can see the kernel image you are trying to boot, right? |
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> title Slackware Linux |
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> root (hd1,1) |
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> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 |
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> title Install GRUB into the hard disk |
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> root (hd1,1) |
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> setup (hd1) |
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> title Change the colors |
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> color light-green/brown blink-red/blue |
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> I installed it via: |
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> # grub |
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> grub: root (hd1,1) |
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> grub: setup (hd1) |
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> grub: exit |
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> All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find the |
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> kernel when I select "Gentoo Linux" or try to manually run the lines. I |
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> tried using "find" at the grub command prompt during the boot process, |
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> but it couldn't find it either. I haven't tried the Slackware kernel |
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> yet, as I am mostly concerned about the Gentoo kernel. |
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> Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot or |
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> /. |
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> What am I missing? |
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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). Then install your grub in that first device. |
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There's nothing wrong with your Grub installation other than it is in the |
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second (third?) device and it need to be either chainloaded or directly |
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booted from the Grub installation in the first device that comes up on boot |
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up. |
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HTH |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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