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 1EWxQc-0001XB-5k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:47:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1Ej3wE024132; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:45:03 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 jA1Ej2l4027185 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:45:02 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.3] ([62.30.42.224]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:45:53 +0000 Message-ID: <43677F77.6030909@manchester.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:45:11 +0000 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: <200510301807.j9UI7o525531@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <200510301324.30816.xcourse97@charter.net> <43661F7B.70806@manchester.ac.uk> <003e01c5de39$ba721cf0$0200a8c0@donahues.us> In-Reply-To: <003e01c5de39$ba721cf0$0200a8c0@donahues.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2005 14:45:53.0079 (UTC) FILETIME=[F56AB470:01C5DEF2] X-Archives-Salt: 60f89a65-de26-4b24-a2b6-3cc667820d98 X-Archives-Hash: 3a3a67b7e586424e01e7cd6507ff28c5 Yes, I had missing the initial 'kernel-' from its definition in grub.conf. It is down to me writing it on a pad with other stuff, I was ignoring the kernel word. Extremely xorry. Now it boots but asksme to 'specifya device to boot' it boots when I enter 'dev/hda3'. It is specified in 'grub.conf' and 'fstab'. Any ideas? Also, I get 'dhcpd:required function 'interface _is_up' but networking isn't working. And, I get 'netmount not started'. Are these issues related. Can you help? Regards, Gavin. Drake Donahue wrote: > Grub really does work. The problem you are having is that grub can't > find your kernel. > > May I suggest: > > Boot the gentoo install cd: > > At the prompt - livecd gentoo # - execute the following commands: > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > cd /mnt/gentoo/boot > ls -l > ls kernel* initramfs* > > The output of "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo" will tell you about the > filesystem on the boot partition and should contain no surprises. > The output of "ls -l" is the boot file and directory structure > that grub will > see if "root (hd0,0)" is in grub.conf. > The output of "ls kernel* initramfs*" is the kernel name and the > initramfs > name that need to appear in grub.conf. > If a 'No such file or directory' error appears, the kernel and/or > the initramfs > is not located in /mnt/gentoo/boot and thus is not in (hd0,0)/ as far > as grub is > concerned. In this case look for a boot -->'something' symbolic link > that points > to 'something' as the kernel location. Most likely a boot directory > will appear > in the "ls -l" output and you should look there for kernel and > initramfs. If > mislocated, I think you should move them to /mnt/gentoo/boot and rerun > " ls kernel* initramfs* ". > > I believe that the " ls kernel* initramfs* " output you see will be > "kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3". > > In that case, I believe grub.conf should read: > > default 0 > timeout 5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc > ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev > initrd /initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 > > If " ls kernel* initramfs* " produced other results, then "the > other kernel name" must be > substituted exactly for 'kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' above and "the other > initramfs name" for > 'initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' above respectively. Don't > lose the initial > slashes in the process. > > If you try this and it does not help, posting the results of the > commands and the grub.conf > may get more help from the smarter than I multitude. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list