[gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[DR GM SEDDON]

Hi,
I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd, 
remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a 
typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I have 
no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I need to 
involve 'proc'?
Thanks.
Gavin.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Marcel Treis]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 14:50, DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> Hi,
> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd,
> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a
> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I have
> no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I need to
> involve 'proc'?
> Thanks.
> Gavin.

Hi Gavin,
you dont need to rerun grub-install once grub is installed properly. Altering 
grub.conf is sufficient.

Did grub boot, but couldn't find the kernel? (It jumps back to the menu in 
that case) Then you might need to check the path to your kernel in grub.conf. 
Note the different naming sceme that grub uses for harddrives (hda1 = hd0,0, 
still the kernel=... line needs to be in normal linux syntax, eg. hda1)

Another error preventing proper boot is a faulty /etc/fstab.
Besides of the entry in fstab, you dont need to worry about /proc, afaik.

Good luck!


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Craig Webster]

On 29 Oct 2005, at 13:50, DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> Hi,
> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd,  
> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a  
> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I  
> have no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I  
> need to involve 'proc'?

How does it fail exactly? Error messages are a very useful debugging  
aid ;)

Yours,
Craig
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[DR GM SEDDON]

Hi,

>> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd,  
>> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a  
>> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I  
>> have no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I  
>> need to involve 'proc'?
>
>
> How does it fail exactly? Error messages are a very useful debugging  
> aid ;)
> There aren't errors as such it just fails then sends me back to the 
> grub menu.   I have a feeling I am going wrong with the root=(hd0,0).  
> On my box, hda1 is /boot and hda3 is / as in the instructions, since a 
> home , usr and var are not necessry here.  should root=hd0,2 since I 
> am using hda3 as  /?

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Florian D.]

DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> Hi,
> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd, 
> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a 
> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I have 
> no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I need to 
> involve 'proc'?
> Thanks.
> Gavin.
> 
> 
you don´t need linuxrc to run the system. did you adjust /etc/fstab?

btw: just "my computer doesn´t boot" is not very helpful. give us more 
information, error messages, etc.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[DR GM SEDDON]

The error is 15, 'file not found'.  /etc/fstab has all my 3 partitions, 
tmpfs, proc and my removable stff.
THANKS
GAVIN.

Florian D. wrote:

> DR GM SEDDON wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd, 
>> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a 
>> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I 
>> have no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I 
>> need to involve 'proc'?
>> Thanks.
>> Gavin.
>>
>>
> you don´t need linuxrc to run the system. did you adjust /etc/fstab?
>
> btw: just "my computer doesn´t boot" is not very helpful. give us more 
> information, error messages, etc.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:20, DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> The error is 15, 'file not found'.  /etc/fstab has all my 3 partitions,
> tmpfs, proc and my removable stff.
> THANKS
> GAVIN.
>

so it does not find your kernel/initrd.

You could post your grub.conf and a ls -lh of /boot. This would be helpfull.

Is /boot on a seperate partition?
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Florian D.]

DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> The error is 15, 'file not found'.  /etc/fstab has all my 3 partitions, 
> tmpfs, proc and my removable stff.
> THANKS
> GAVIN.
> 
does the grub prompt come up when you boot? if yes, you could try to 
access the kernel and initrd files via tab-completion or the find command.

did you read this already?:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] new inst not booting

[Karol Krizka]

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On Saturday 29 October 2005 05:50, DR GM SEDDON wrote:
> Hi,
> I finished the inst. and rebooted.  It failed, so I booted onto cd,
> remounted boot and /  Then chrooted.  I altered grub.conf to fix a
> typo.  reran grub-install.  Rebooted.  It still fails.  I noticed I have
> no '/linuxrc'.   On / or /boot, how can I generate this.  Do I need to
> involve 'proc'?
No you don't, linuxrc is part of the initramfs and that can be generated with 
genkernel and maybe some other way. What is the exactly error you are 
getting?
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