Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GRUB won't boot my new Gentoo install

[Dan Johansson]

On Saturday 06 August 2005 20.43, Richard Fish wrote:
> Dan Johansson wrote:
> >On Friday 05 August 2005 14.37, Holly Bostick wrote:
> >>Dan Johansson schreef:
> >>....
> >>Not without knowing at what point the boot fails.
> >>
> >>What is the error you're getting, and at what point after selecting the
> >>Gentoo entry?
> >
> >root (hd1,2)
> >	Filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83
> >kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off
> > 	[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x165a46]
> >(and here it hangs...., no more activity)
>
> A few things look odd to me:
>
> 1. Isn't (hd1,2) the same device as /dev/sdb2?  It looks like your /boot
> and / are the same here...
No, (hd1,2) is /dev/sdb3 (grub start counting from 0).

> 2. The normal name for the kernel is "vmlinuz-...".  You have "kernel-..."
/boot/kernel-2.6.12-r6 is a cp -a from /usr/src/linux/arci/i386/boot/bzImage, 
and /usr/src/linux is a link to /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

> So, which partition actually contains /boot?
For Gentoo (hd1,2) /dev/sdb3
For SuSE (hd0,1)/boot /dev/sda2/boot

> How are you switching between grub versions?  Important: if you are
> changing the disk boot order in the BIOS, you need to remember that grub
> always defines (hd0) as the currently booting drive...regardless of the
> order of the drives in the system.  So you may need to change everything
> to be (hd0,X).
I'm not switching between grub versions, I only use the grub from Gentoo (the 
SuSE grub is not being used). I've also tried to change the boot order of the 
disks in BIOS (and changing the (hdx,y) references in grub) with the same 
result.

> Can you get to a grub command line, and do a  "find /kernel-2.6.12-r6"?
Yes, grub finds the file.


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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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