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On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:20 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> Happy New Year! |
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so far :) 1 almost down and 365 to go! |
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> BRM wrote: |
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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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> Yes. |
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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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> Check your /boot/grub/device.map to make sure that devices correspond to the |
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> expected grub nomenclature. Use <tab-completion> after you run # grub for |
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> root to find out where Grub thinks its root fs resides. |
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in my experience, it is not enough just to run grub from within linux - |
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you have to boot to grub. YMMV. |
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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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> > |
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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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> I assume from what you said above that when you run ls -la /gentoo/bzImage |
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> you can see the kernel image you are trying to boot, right? |
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not quite! root is (hd1,1) which is hdb2. This is grub's root device, |
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ie your boot partition (if you have one). The kernel line specifies the |
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linux root as hdb1. so `ls -la /boot/gentoo/bzImage` should show as you |
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expected, given that hdb2 is mounted as /boot. |
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HTH! |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32 |
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#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer." |
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#endif |
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-- linux/arch/sparc64/double.h |
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