Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

[Maarten <gentoo@ultratux.org>]

Gilberto Martins wrote:
>>Most modern BIOS have the option to boot from a lot of devices, you
>>can check if your BIOS have options to boot from hd1, or primary
>>slave, whatever your BIOS call it, just enter the SETUP and check for
>>it.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it is already configured to start the first Hard Disk.
> 
> 
> 
>>LILO won't help you, you're installing the boot loader in a slave
>>disk, whatever you do, your BIOS will still call for the master (in
>>most cases), check your grub config twice, change it for the slave
>>drive (hd(1,0)?!) and change your BIOS to boot from the slave...
> 
> 
> 
> I really haven't checked for it, but i did "emerge lilo" to have a try
> at lilo, anyway. After that, I "emerge --unmerge grub" it. Hope I
> haven't done something too wrong.
> 
> Finally, I did:
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make install
> 
> 
> 
> After that, I had the folowing "/boot" content:
> 
> # cd /boot
> # file *
> System.map:                      symbolic link to `System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
> System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1:     ASCII text
> System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old: ASCII text
> System.map.old:                  symbolic link to
> `System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
> boot:                            symbolic link to `.'
> boot.0340:                       x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48
> config:                          symbolic link to `config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
> config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1:         ASCII English text
> config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old:     ASCII English text
> config-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10: ASCII English text
> config.old:                      symbolic link to `config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
> grub:                            directory
> kernel-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10: x86 boot sector
> lost+found:                      directory
> map:                             data
> vmlinuz:                         symbolic link to `vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
> vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1:        x86 boot sector
> vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old:    x86 boot sector
> vmlinuz.old:                     symbolic link to `vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
> 
> 
> 
> Now, after rebooting, it really went straight, with text menu. It
> starts loading really fast the system,but all of a sudden, a "Kernel
> Panic" says:
> 
> Warning - Unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic - not suncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> 
> 
> Which "init=" I should use ? the problem is the lack of a "initrd"
> file ? I tried to read mkinitrd man page, but I guess this does not
> apply.
> 
> This is the lilo.conf.
> 
> 
> lba32
> boot = /dev/hdb
> default=gentoo
> menu-scheme=Wb
> prompt
> delay = 50
> vga = 791
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
>         root = /dev/hdb1

You're pointing the kernel to hdb1 as the system root partition. I bet
money hdb1 isn't; it's /boot. So point it to the hdb[2|3|4|...] which is
your main / partition, and all will be well.

Maarten

>         label = Gentoo
>         read-only # read-only for checking
> 
> 
> 
> I adapted it from sample file. I can see that :
> 1) there was something missin in grub conf file;
> 2) I need to study a little bit more ...  8(
> 

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