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I'm giving Gentoo another try, having been using Ubuntu for quite a while, |
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and more recently Mint. I would like to be able to access Mint until the |
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Gentoo system is working as I'd like it. |
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I have gotten through the install, for the most part, up to grub. I can |
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see how to edit the grub.conf file for my Gentoo partition. However, it |
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isn't clear to me from the examples how to write a grub.conf entry for |
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Mint's root (/) partition, on /dev/sda8. I am asking for advice on writing |
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the grub.conf file. |
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Here are the various partitions involved: |
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Gentoo: |
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/boot /dev/sda1 |
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/ /dev/sda2 |
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Mint (/boot is not separate) |
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/ /dev/sda8 |
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The Mint kernel is using an initramfs, while I have manually configured the |
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kernel on Gentoo, at least for now. |
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Grub 2 is not transparent to me. The kernel is: |
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/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic |
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the initrd-img file is: |
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/boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-13-generic |
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My grub.conf file for gentoo would look like this: |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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#splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title Gentoo Original |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-3.0.6-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda2 |
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########### |
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I have a few other questions of a more or less minor nature. Perhaps |
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better to ask them separately. |
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Alan Davis |
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