RE: [gentoo-user] Help

[Alex A. Smith MCP]

Hi,

Have you made sure of the filenames of the init ram disk and the kernel?

Only reason I say this is because the other day when I did a Stage 3
Genkernel the files were named something completely different from what is
in the handbook. (I think initrd was something along the lines of
initramdisk-<more text> and the both included genkernel in the file name)

I had myself wondering over that for a while :)

hth

Alex A. Smith

p.s. im installing a gentoo 2.6.12-r6 Stage 3 genkernel atm so I'll let you
know when its done if the above didn't help ya.

-----Original Message-----
From: C.Beamer [mailto:cbeamer@×××××××××.net] 
Sent: 24 July 2005 18:24
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Help

Hi All,

After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo
install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo
install trial run.

All seemed to go well.  When I rebooted I got the menu with the two
selections listed (Gentoo and DOS).  The computer will boot into DOS
okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo.  Ergo, I think the grub
install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file.

Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I
relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook.

Details are as follows:

I have a dual boot system:

hda1 is DOS
hda2 is /boot
hda3 is swap
hda4 is my extended partition
hda5 is /root

The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows:

default 0
timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6

root (hda0, 1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192
real_root=/dev/hda5 udev
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

title=DOS
root (hda0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the
command

'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*'

as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile.

Have I missed something or done something wrong?

Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file?

I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to
edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message
when I try to boot into Gentoo that says:

Error 15:  File not found

This displays immediatedly after the line

kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192
real_root=/dev/hda5 udev

Any assistance would be appreciated.  And please remember, I am not
stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad.  I've been running Linux at
home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before
that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora.  However, I'm finding that
with each release of Fedora, more "quirks" appear.  Things that I was
able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without
"letting some blood".  Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can
install the software from source using emerge.  This will be a learning
curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a
friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was!

Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete
details be stated for any help that is provided.  And if you tell me
that I "screwed up royally" and have to start all over, that's okay. 
That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know
before installing Gentoo on a "production" system.

BTW, I did a "Stage 3" install.  Since it was my first time and I don't
know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my
head.  :-)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Respectfully,

Colleen

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