From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GjdmO-0000G7-6e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:31:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kADFRHYx000941; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:27:17 GMT Received: from mail.net-xero.net (mail.net-xero.com [66.29.75.80] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kADFO1e7019306 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:24:02 GMT Received: (qmail 11304 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2006 15:23:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.195?) (192.168.2.195) by mail.net-xero.net with SMTP; 13 Nov 2006 15:23:59 -0000 Message-ID: <45588E07.70901@net-xero.net> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:23:51 -0500 From: Jon M User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time References: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> <45584E47.5050207@akyasociados.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <45584E47.5050207@akyasociados.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 851943b7-a853-470b-a963-27274e74c1dd X-Archives-Hash: 5262706780a33c11876313d5992925ad 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! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list