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Dan Johansson schreef: |
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> Hi, |
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> At the moment I'm trying to upgrade one of my old computers from SuSE to |
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> Gentoo. I have install a second SCSI-disk and installed Gentoo on this second |
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> disk using a stage-1 install. But when I try to boot my new install GRUB |
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> hangs (kernel does not uncompress) after I have selected the kernel. |
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> This is the output from grub after selecting my gentoo setup. |
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> root (hd1,2) |
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> Filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off |
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> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x165a46] |
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> (and here it hangs....) |
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> |
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> I have installed grub to MBR of the first SCSI-disk (sda) and I'm having my |
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> grub files on sdb3. |
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> Here's my grub.conf file: |
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> # By default, boot the first entry. |
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> default 0 |
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> # By default boot the old SuSE (until Gentoo boots OK) |
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> title SuSE |
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> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 acpi=off splash=silent |
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> showopts |
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> initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd |
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> |
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> # For booting Gentoo 2.6.12-r6 |
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> title Gentoo 2.6.12-r6 |
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> root (hd1,2) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off |
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> |
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> The second SCSI-disk (Gentoo) has the following partitions: |
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> /dev/sdb1 swap |
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> /dev/sdb2 / |
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> /dev/sdb3 /boot |
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> /dev/sdb4 LVM |
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> |
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> The Kernel is compiled without Module support and all necessary drivers are |
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> compiled into the kernel. |
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> |
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> Booting the old SuSE installation works without problems but Gentoo does not. |
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> Any suggestions on what could be wrong? |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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Not without knowing at what point the boot fails. |
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What is the error you're getting, and at what point after selecting the |
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Gentoo entry? |
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Secondly, you have only one separate boot partition? Meaning that the |
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SuSE /boot folder is on the SuSE partition? |
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That might be your problem-- since that would mean that you've got |
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possibly two installs of GRUB (one in the SuSE /boot folder and one in |
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the Gentoo /boot partition). |
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So you've got to wonder which one is running. At least I did. |
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I also dual-boot SuSE and Gentoo (SuSE is my fallback in case I break |
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Gentoo so badly that I need to use something else to fix it), and what I |
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did (since I 'really' use the Gentoo GRUB, and the Gentoo /boot |
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partition) was to copy the SuSE kernel (and System Map, and config) to |
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my Gentoo /boot folder. |
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Perhaps you need to do that in reverse (copy the compiled kernel and |
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related files to your SuSE /boot folder). |
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HTH, |
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Holly |
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