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 1EWHeG-00076S-TB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:11:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9UI7xdd029059; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:07:59 GMT Received: from relay.phys.ualberta.ca (relay.phys.ualberta.ca [129.128.7.238]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9UI7wrG030770 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:07:59 GMT Received: from webmail.phys.ualberta.ca ([129.128.7.21]:49626 "EHLO webmail.phys.ualberta.ca" TLS-CIPHER: ) by relay.phys.ualberta.ca with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:07:46 -0700 Received: (from web-proxy@localhost) by webmail.phys.ualberta.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id j9UI7o525531; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:07:50 -0700 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:07:50 -0700 Message-Id: <200510301807.j9UI7o525531@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.phys.ualberta.ca: web-proxy set sender to pogosyan@Phys.UAlberta.CA using -f From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.50 beta 20011007 X-OriginatingIP: 208.38.43.222 (pogosyan) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 26dbb62c-a96d-4fa4-99d7-6f05d5a0c414 X-Archives-Hash: 7cd80f5933b4af6b99659bba1a7c42bf > 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. > Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) and I had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and see that I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines. -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Associate Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list