From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:05:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640610291205u4da6cecclf2cf94a9992db155@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21852482.1162147675990.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@earthlink.net> wrote:
> swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6
[snip]
> My grub.conf file is as follows:
>
> default=0
> timeout=30
> splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
> root (hd0,5)
> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi
> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8
You have a separate /boot partition, so you should reference things on
*that* partition. So your grub.conf should be:
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8
root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev
vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi
initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8
> When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors.
>
> The device.map file contains the following
> (hd0) /dev/sda
This is correct if the BIOS is setup to boot from the SATA drive
before any IDE hard disks.
I never really liked grub-install. Try:
cat << EOF | grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
EOF
The most important line from the above is one that looks like this:
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
If you don't see this, post what you do see.
-Richard
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2006-10-29 20:05 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-10-29 20:55 [gentoo-user] Grub problems Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-29 23:27 ` Richard Fish
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2006-10-29 21:02 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-30 0:49 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-30 1:06 ` Joe Menola
2006-10-30 3:48 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-30 2:02 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-30 2:14 ` David Relson
2006-10-30 2:23 ` Brett I. Holcomb
2006-10-30 11:46 Jeff Cranmer
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