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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3iRF-0003B5-QO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6KNwPcO018732; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:58:25 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6KNqW2J019161 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:52:32 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 134501F5416 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:52:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD221F5402 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:52:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.2) with ESMTP id 15337102 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:52:31 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:52:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607210152.31075.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: a7b06a8c-cc8a-4313-b6f2-5b418f2a250e X-Archives-Hash: 26cb09af0705180fdcbc7b883011636f On Friday 21 July 2006 01:35, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. > (big compile left to complete). > The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): > > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > boot > kernel with a few characters and a tab> > > > The system will not boot from any of the entries I've tried in > grub.conf: > Notice I've tried all sorts of partitions for the root=/dev/ entry. > > #0 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 wrong > > #1 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 wrong > > #2 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 wrong > > #3 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 looks good, but try this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 hope it helps. if you use make install a vmlinuz symlink is created, so you don't need all your kernels in grub.conf. Only vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list