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From: Tapio Raevaara <tapio.raevaara@×××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:00:44
Message-Id: 200710042136.35029.tapio.raevaara@iki.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem by Don Jerman
1 On Thursday 04 October 2007, Don Jerman wrote:
2 > On 10/4/07, Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3
4 >
5 > try:
6 > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3
7 >
8 > why:
9 > /boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while
10 > grub is running you're starting from the boot partition's filesystem
11 > root. Easy mistake, I do it all the time when I try to do something
12 > fancy with grub.
13
14 Aren't they both supposed to be OK? /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot, I
15 believe the idea is that (hd?,?)/boot/<blaablaa> works regardless
16 whether /boot is a partition or not.
17
18 Or is it time for me to go to bed?
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu>