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Just when I began to think I knew a thing or two about grub I'm |
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finding I am failing to get a working grub.conf going on a new |
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install. |
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True, the install is inside a vmware machine on windows vista but that |
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has not presented a problem in previous versions of windows and it |
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does not appear to be host OS related anyway. |
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When I attempt to boot, instead of the normal selection one expects |
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from grub I get the grub command line. |
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So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from |
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grub command line. |
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root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 |
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boot |
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But it fails with a message saying please append a working root=?? to |
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the boot commands. |
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So reloading the install ISO I mount /mnt/gentoo/boot and edit |
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grub.conf to say: |
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title=kernel-2.6.25-r1 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=/dev/sda3 |
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That fails |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=/dev/hda3 (Thinking maybe grub |
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does not understand sda) |
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That Fails |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=(hd0)/sda3 |
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Fails |
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I've even tried: |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=(hd0,2) |
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And another failure... all with the same message about appending a |
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working `root=???' |
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I'm about out of ideas here. |
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With the livecd for 2008.1 running, saying: |
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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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and |
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mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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Does mount those devices as expected. |
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Inside the grub command line when trying to boot the new install |
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root (hd0,0) |
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does find the root partition and tell me its exf2fs. |
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kernel /kern<tab> |
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Does complete to `/kernel-2.6.25-r1' |
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I'm not getting where the problem is. |
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