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

[Uwe Thiem]

On 05 August 2005 12:25, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the moment I'm trying to upgrade one of my old computers from SuSE to
> Gentoo. I have install a second SCSI-disk and installed Gentoo on this
> second disk using a stage-1 install. But when I try to boot my new install
> GRUB hangs (kernel does not uncompress) after I have selected the kernel.
>
> This is the output from grub after selecting my gentoo setup.
>
> 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....)
>
> I have installed grub to MBR of the first SCSI-disk (sda) and I'm having my
> grub files on sdb3.
>
> Here's my grub.conf file:
>
> # By default, boot the first entry.
> default 0
>
> # By default boot the old SuSE (until Gentoo boots OK)
> title SuSE
>     kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2   acpi=off splash=silent
> showopts
>     initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
>
> # For booting Gentoo 2.6.12-r6
> title  Gentoo 2.6.12-r6
> root (hd1,2)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off
>
> The second SCSI-disk (Gentoo) has the following partitions:
> /dev/sdb1	swap
> /dev/sdb2	/
> /dev/sdb3	/boot
> /dev/sdb4	LVM
>
> The Kernel is compiled without Module support and all necessary drivers are
> compiled into the kernel.

Add "doscsi" to the kenel options.

Uwe

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