Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

[Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net>]

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i 
> notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so 
> maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you 
> can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps.
> 
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title=Gentoo Linux
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 
> init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3
> initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5


Hi Rafael,

Thanks for your reply :)

I actually managed to get it up and running.  Turns out my grub.conf was 
good, but was missing my IDE chipset in the kernel.  With a bit of 
playing around I managed to get it up and running.

Thanks again for trying to help though, I appreciate it!
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