Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

[Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
> 
> > I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel,
> > another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload
> > gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot
> > "kernel-2.6.37-r4f", and symlinked it a vmlinuz. vmlinuz is the name I use in
> > the Grub stanzas. Is Gentoo's Grub expecting the kernel to have a particular
> > name, and I picked a wrong one? Or maybe what it doesn't like is that I
> > uncommented splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz in menu.lst?
>


I always just copy the bzImage to (for example)
/boot/vmlinux-2.6.38-gentoo-r5, but the name doesn't really matter as
long as it matches your bootloader entry.

> 
> Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't 
> actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be 
> there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use 
> of the sectors there that didn't like the file format.
>

The install docs are fairly clear that installing the grub pkg is only
the first step of setting up the bootloader.

It seems to me (though I could certainly be wrong) that your best bet 
really is to perform a "vanilla install" first, as much as your hardware 
allows. Just to get to know the system before attempting to customize it.
:)

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