[gentoo-dev] listing 40

[gentoo-dev] listing 40

[T.J.R. Woudenberg]

Hi there,

I have a comment about listing 40 in your Gentoo Linux 1.2 Installation
Instructions for the x86; in listing 40 you provide a sample grub.lst, I
think you made an error there (read: the grub.lst won't work on my computer)
because you refer to (hd0,0)/boot/ 2 times in that grub.lst. In my boot
partition there's no boot dir, there's only a mount point in my /etc/fstab
called boot but grub isn't supposed to know that. Is it my mistake, do you
have to make a boot dir in your boot partition and mount the disk later on
in your / dir, or is there a typo in listing 40? Anyway I changed the 2
lines with the reference to the boot dir:

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz  -->
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

kernel /boot/bzImage  -->  kernel /bzImage

Kind regards and keep up the good work on a great Linux distro,

Tristan Woudenberg

Re: [gentoo-dev] listing 40

[Brian Webb]

There should be a link /boot/boot that points to . (/boot).  This should
allow it to work in both the normal case (for those who follow the
instructions) and for the case for users (like myself) that selectively
ignore the instructions and don't use a /boot partition, but blindly type
in the menu.lst from the instructions. ;-)

Maybe you didn't have /boot mounted at some point (say during the untaring
stage) and the link didn't get created?

Brian


> Hi there,
>
> I have a comment about listing 40 in your Gentoo Linux 1.2 Installation
> Instructions for the x86; in listing 40 you provide a sample grub.lst, I
> think you made an error there (read: the grub.lst won't work on my
> computer) because you refer to (hd0,0)/boot/ 2 times in that grub.lst.
> In my boot partition there's no boot dir, there's only a mount point in
> my /etc/fstab called boot but grub isn't supposed to know that. Is it my
> mistake, do you have to make a boot dir in your boot partition and mount
> the disk later on in your / dir, or is there a typo in listing 40?
> Anyway I changed the 2 lines with the reference to the boot dir:
>
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz  -->
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> kernel /boot/bzImage  -->  kernel /bzImage