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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:02:47 +0200
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walt writes:

> On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote:
> > I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and
> > 
> > strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get
> > is:
> >    Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7`
> > 
> > root (hd0,1)
> > 
> >   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > 
> > kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4
> > 
> >     [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020]
> 
> The only thing that looks a bit unusual is that your kernel-2.6.xxx
> appears to be in the root directory instead of in /boot where it
> usually lives.

No, that's okay, I have it the same way. The root (hd0,1) statement tells 
grub where the boot partition is, and all other paths are relative to 
that.

	Wonko