Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

[dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>]

On 02/28/2011 08:25 AM, Mick wrote:
> On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net> wrote:
> 
>> Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong.  1) The
>> (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2).  That fixed the problem
>> with no Grub menu.  2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should
>> have been (hd0,0) for the Windows boot partition not the Window
>> Operating System.
>>
>> Now when I boot the Grub menu comes up and booting to Windows works.
>> However, I still have the same problem booting to Linux.  It chokes on
>> /dev/sda7 which is my root partition and my real_root kernel option.
> 
> Ah!  Our messages crossed in the post!
> 
> Check that you have compile in the kernel the fs for your root
> partition and that you have root (hd0,6) in your grub.conf and
> real_root=/dev/sda7.
> 


All works now.  It looks like it was in the genkernel.  The only thing I
changed in the config file was turning off Raid like the documentation
said, I must have missed that.  So I'm not sure what fixed it, but after
I recompiled it worked and in grub it was (hd0,2).

Thanks all,

dhk