From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OP3cG-0006zt-N1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:10:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 581F3E0D6E for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67622E0923 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF059E3.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.89.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C30B34A800C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:02:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:02:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-tuxonice-r2; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C1958B9.4000903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 Message-Id: <201006170302.48107.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 1e1abec7-b5f8-460c-aef3-209c1df5edb8 X-Archives-Hash: 92693b8dda40afbc76d200988b5a34b5 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