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 1EWYrQ-0003tA-Ap for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:34:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9VCUw88017555; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:30:58 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9VCUtbB002109 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:30:57 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t10so512726wxc for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:30:55 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fvYJi38q5zTgLxOBAISCtsWa4wZfcrtLgdVw9+Z77lY3J3ttvKOEwCOslABp6/j3fQ3IDcf4ZPFmHC/m/uLaoTylYAOPI0BPAbwofSQAa66kuPsQS0t74PKROWSNKFKcE9x702byinA6ULtJTPOhi2Zr7AiaTk7i+Dwk8bYNX/s= Received: by 10.65.236.1 with SMTP id n1mr164567qbr; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:30:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.203.6 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:30:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:30:55 +0000 From: Qian Qiao To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2005.1 installcd mini can't be used as rescue cd ? In-Reply-To: <20051031090113.GA2211@ahriman.roedu.net> 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=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051031090113.GA2211@ahriman.roedu.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9VCUtbB002109 X-Archives-Salt: 768b08c8-f73d-4c23-b618-35591320d717 X-Archives-Hash: 988490ed5d7df83c67e58f8e43e6f2ba On 10/31/05, Mihai Rusu 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? :) -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list