From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWHCE-0002wV-MN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:42:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9UHdOYQ001672; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:39:24 GMT Received: from mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9UHdN7r014799 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:39:23 GMT Received: from mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.143]) by mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9UHdMqX017223 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:39:22 -0500 Received: from 68-185-168-2.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com (HELO shooter.local) (68.185.168.2) by mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2005 12:39:22 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.97,267,1125892800"; d="scan'208"; a="1731163763:sNHT15961684" From: William Tetrault To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:38:23 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200510281619.j9SGJRQ30348@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <200510290841.51988.kkrizka@gmail.com> <436496F1.1090108@manchester.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <436496F1.1090108@manchester.ac.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510301138.23431.xcourse97@charter.net> X-Archives-Salt: 900e4fe8-8e0b-4593-bf0c-75150bcc8744 X-Archives-Hash: b50a9d798976c15f5d2deded543e13ec On Sunday 30 October 2005 03:48 am, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > Karol Krizka wrote: > >On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:16, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > >>my grub.conf: > >>' default 0 > >>timeout 5 > >>splashimage=(hd0.0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >> > >>title=linux-2.6.13 > >>root (hd0.0) > >>kernel /genkernel--x86_64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc > >>ramdisk-8193 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev > >>initrd /initrd' SNIP > > > >>>>I noticed your files are in / not /boot where mine are. Should I > >>>>mv them? > >>> > >>>They're in / only on the boot partition ie they are in the root of > >>>(hd0,0). > >>> > >>>If you are specifying your files as living in /boot on the boot > >>>partition then this could stop your system booting fully. > >>> > >>>Perhaps you could post your grub.conf? SNIP I've been using gentoo for 3 yrs now and using a grub.conf exactly as follows for all that time. It has failed to work. I did not create the /boot dir with mkdir, that was done when I cp'd my bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage to /boot, and I did it that way because that's how the docs said to do it. tbill@Shooter ~ $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo (linux kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r10) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda1 If you, when you installed gentoo in the first place, placed /boot in its own partition, then anything you copy to that partition is going to start with "/boot...". How else are you going to tell the kernel to copy something to the boot partition when /boot is all you've mounted there? If you, as root, tell the system to mount the partition where you've installed grub.conf, how else do you specify it except as "mount /boot". I don't mean to belabor the point, but.... So tell grub to look on "(hd0,0)/boot/bzImage" for the kernel to boot, only,since you don't have a bzImage but a genkernel, change it accordingly: (hd0,0)/boot/genkernel-*. I assure you that this "stop your system from booting fully." Also, since you're getting error code 15, what you have in /etc/fstab is completely immaterial. Grub can't even find your kernel, and grub's interest stops at finding the kernel, so take care of grub's errors first, then worry about whether your fstab is properly set up. Bill Tetrault Madison, WI -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list