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 1GKIqv-0001eK-Fn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:07:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k84I6JD2006441; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:06:19 GMT Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k84I0rjd032440 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:00:53 GMT Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=37015 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GKIlk-0000WU-Oh for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:02:00 +0200 Received: from cc117081-a.gorre1.fr.home.nl ([217.120.145.219]:37170 helo=manuel.fawlty.mine.nu) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GKIcK-0001IR-NO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:52:16 +0200 From: Harm Geerts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Again - problem on installing Gentoo Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:00:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20060904155426.2302.qmail@web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060904155426.2302.qmail@web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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: <200609042000.50833.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Archives-Salt: e84f551e-f4ce-421a-a87b-bea154c7f337 X-Archives-Hash: fa51dbf830bcfc2086f69c67ae81b86b On Monday 04 September 2006 17:54, Stephen Liu wrote: > # ls -al /boot/ > .keep > boot -> . > grub > linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 > loar+found > * end * + > Just rechecked it. It is; > 'kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2' > > Sorry it was my typing mistake on my posting. = wrong kernel name try: 'kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2' On a side note: You asked about the "boot -> ." symlink in your previous thread, this is a convenience thing for users like you. You have a seperate /boot partition /dev/hda1 with the kernel. But you tell grub the kernel is at "(hd0,0)/boot/" This maps to /dev/hda1/boot/ By linking "boot -> ." grub can still find the kernel even though the config is wrong. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list