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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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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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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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Details are as follows: |
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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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splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 |
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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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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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as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. |
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Have I missed something or done something wrong? |
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Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? |
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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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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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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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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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Respectfully, |
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Colleen |
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