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no, I do not have a separated boot partition because I just have 2 |
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disks with the raid, so I cannot have the separated boot partition. |
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But the boot starts and initrd and linuxrc are loaded ( apparently ). |
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On 6/21/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> > Hi list, |
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> > I have been trying for 5 days now to install a gentoo system on a |
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> > nvidia mother board with fake raid, I already have a windows system on |
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> > the machine that needs the raid and I want to install gentoo on it. |
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> > I have followed instructions on |
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> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid |
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> > I was succeeded on installing gentoo base system and grub :-), but, |
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> > when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_xxxx device |
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> > I had try the hard way, open a shell when it ask for real_root and on |
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> > /dev/mapper is just control. |
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> > I had try with genkernel and on the same situation on /dev/mapper/ has |
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> > control and my disk, but none of the partitions. |
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> > I am so close of making this work, but is really frustrating get stuck |
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> > in something like that for so long. |
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> > Thanks for attention, Allan |
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> Hi, |
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> No experience with RAID but do you have a separate /boot partition. |
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> Assume you're also using an initrd (with genkernel ... --dmraid ...). |
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> HTH.Rumen |
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An application asked: |
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"Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", |
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so I´ve installed Linux |
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