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I have an AMD64 system which I just installed the AMD64 Gentoo Image |
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onto, following AMD64 HowTo. However, I am having trouble getting grub |
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to find my kernel. I'm only using grub because of the warning about |
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LILO (which I much prefer due to the device naming convention it uses) |
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- I was using LILO under Slackware but that was 32-bit only, and not |
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I'm using the 64/32 bit mix - so I'm going with what's recommended for |
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now. |
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The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as |
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the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. |
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The system has 3 hard drives: hda, hdb, and sda; as well as a dvd drive |
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(hdc). |
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/dev/hdb2 has the following structure: |
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- list of all my Slackware kernels |
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- gentoo/bzImage |
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- gentoo/bzImage_2-6-23-gentoo-r3 |
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- grub/ |
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Below is my grub.conf (minus comment lines): |
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timeout 30 |
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default 0 |
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fallback 1 |
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title Gentoo Linux |
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root (hd1,1) |
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kernel /gentoo/bzImage root=/dev/hdb1 |
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title Slackware Linux |
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root (hd1,1) |
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kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 |
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title Install GRUB into the hard disk |
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root (hd1,1) |
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setup (hd1) |
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title Change the colors |
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color light-green/brown blink-red/blue |
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I installed it via: |
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# grub |
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grub: root (hd1,1) |
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grub: setup (hd1) |
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grub: exit |
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All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find the |
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kernel when I select "Gentoo Linux" or try to manually run the lines. I |
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tried using "find" at the grub command prompt during the boot process, |
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but it couldn't find it either. I haven't tried the Slackware kernel |
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yet, as I am mostly concerned about the Gentoo kernel. |
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Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot or |
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/. |
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What am I missing? |
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TIA, |
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Ben |
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