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remove space in root (hda0, 1) |
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my kernel line also has devfs=nomount but probably this isnt needed if using |
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latest genkernel, dont know. |
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Martins |
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On Sunday 24 July 2005 20:23, C.Beamer wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo |
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> install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo |
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> install trial run. |
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> |
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> All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two |
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> selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot into DOS |
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> okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo. Ergo, I think the grub |
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> install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file. |
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> |
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> Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I |
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> relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook. |
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> |
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> Details are as follows: |
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> |
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> I have a dual boot system: |
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> hda1 is DOS |
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> hda2 is /boot |
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> hda3 is swap |
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> hda4 is my extended partition |
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> hda5 is /root |
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> The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 30 |
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> |
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> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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> |
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> title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 |
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> |
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> root (hda0, 1) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 |
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> real_root=/dev/hda5 udev |
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> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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> |
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> title=DOS |
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> root (hda0,0) |
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> makeactive |
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> chainloader +1 |
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> I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the |
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> command |
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> 'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*' |
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> |
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> as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. |
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> |
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> Have I missed something or done something wrong? |
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> |
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> Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? |
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> |
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> I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to |
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> edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message |
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> when I try to boot into Gentoo that says: |
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> Error 15: File not found |
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> This displays immediatedly after the line |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 |
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> real_root=/dev/hda5 udev |
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> |
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> Any assistance would be appreciated. And please remember, I am not |
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> stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad. I've been running Linux at |
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> home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before |
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> that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora. However, I'm finding that |
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> with each release of Fedora, more "quirks" appear. Things that I was |
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> able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without |
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> "letting some blood". Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can |
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> install the software from source using emerge. This will be a learning |
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> curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a |
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> friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was! |
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> |
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> Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete |
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> details be stated for any help that is provided. And if you tell me |
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> that I "screwed up royally" and have to start all over, that's okay. |
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> That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know |
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> before installing Gentoo on a "production" system. |
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> |
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> BTW, I did a "Stage 3" install. Since it was my first time and I don't |
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> know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my |
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> head. :-) |
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> Thanks in advance for any assistance. |
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> |
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> Respectfully, |
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> |
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> Colleen |
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