From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pumfg-0002Jk-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:04:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00462E05BE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF332E058A for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LHF00HUZNQ8QZ00@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:49:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:49:22 -0500 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4D6E4AE2.7080903@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> <4D6A922A.70505@binarywings.net> <201102271940.01393.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D6B867F.9040502@optonline.net> <4D6B9431.5090702@optonline.net> <4D6B9F1B.4060201@optonline.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110105 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 449b323388ec299b07504efebccabd50 On 02/28/2011 08:25 AM, Mick wrote: > On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk 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