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 1EVrWU-0000SE-N0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:17:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9TEFwD0008285; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:15:58 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9TEFw5f012603 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:15:58 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.3] ([62.30.42.224]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <43638422.2060207@manchester.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:16:02 +0100 From: DR GM SEDDON User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd References: <200510281619.j9SGJRQ30348@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <43637770.1030005@manchester.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2005 14:16:49.0497 (UTC) FILETIME=[66EBF490:01C5DC93] X-Archives-Salt: 86b49b5d-d014-4f51-ba2c-935ac42151e2 X-Archives-Hash: 60d93e50485273aedd182d57fdecd575 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' I see hoew by saying root (hd0,0) leaves things relative to /boot. But there is no linuxrc in /boot. I think this is the prob. The error code is 15. Thanks Craig Webster wrote: > On 29 Oct 2005, at 14:21, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > >> Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: >> >>> Not really, you can use initramfs in place of initrd. I have in >>> grub.conf title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13-r3 UDEV root (hd0,0) kernel / >>> kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=16384 init=/linuxrc >>> real_root=/dev/sda2 vga=3847 udev initrd /initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 >>> >>>> Dear list, I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am >>>> impressed. I have generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the >>>> kernel is in /boot. However, I do not have 'initrd' but >>>> 'initramfs'. is this a problem or should I modify grub >>>> appropriately? Gavin. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list >>>> >>> >>> >> 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? > > Yours, > Craig > -- > Craig Webster | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: craig@xeriom.net > Xeriom.NET | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: http://xeriom.net > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list