[gentoo-amd64] 2005.1 installcd mini can't be used as rescue cd ?

[gentoo-amd64] 2005.1 installcd mini can't be used as rescue cd ?

[Mihai Rusu]

Hi there

This might be just something stupid I'm missing but here it goes: 
after installing "another" OS these days I needed the usual trick to 
boot my gentoo hdd partition from a gentoo x86_64 cd kernel and run 
grub-install (the "other" OS overwrittes the MBR at installation).

As usual I try to boot a mini x86_64 gentoo installcd like:
gentoo-nofb root=/dev/hda2 noinitrd

This works well with 2005.0 (and the older images I have tried, even 
when I was running x86) but does not with 2005.1. It seems to ignore 
"noinitrd" parameter and still load it and continue the normal cd 
booting sequence instead of mounting my hdd partition as root after the 
kernel boot :(

Any hints ?

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2005.1 installcd mini can't be used as rescue cd ?

[Qian Qiao]

On 10/31/05, Mihai Rusu <dizzy@roedu.net> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> This might be just something stupid I'm missing but here it goes:
> after installing "another" OS these days I needed the usual trick to
> boot my gentoo hdd partition from a gentoo x86_64 cd kernel and run
> grub-install (the "other" OS overwrittes the MBR at installation).
>
> As usual I try to boot a mini x86_64 gentoo installcd like:
> gentoo-nofb root=/dev/hda2 noinitrd
>
> This works well with 2005.0 (and the older images I have tried, even
> when I was running x86) but does not with 2005.1. It seems to ignore
> "noinitrd" parameter and still load it and continue the normal cd
> booting sequence instead of mounting my hdd partition as root after the
> kernel boot :(
>
> Any hints ?

Even then, you can still mount /dev/hda2, then chroot into it, and
finish your grub installation, can't you? :)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2005.1 installcd mini can't be used as rescue cd ?

[Mihai Rusu]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:30:55PM +0000, Qian Qiao wrote:

> Even then, you can still mount /dev/hda2, then chroot into it, and
> finish your grub installation, can't you? :)

That's what I thought too, but for an unrelated to this mail thread 
reason after "mount, chroot, grub-install /dev/hda" grub-install gives 
some strange error. Anyways, this grub error is unrelated and I wouldnt 
want to pollute the thread with this. So can someone say why "noinitrd" 
doesn't seem to work anymore starting with 2005.1 ?

Thanks!

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