Hi,

Last weekend I installed Gentoo 2005.1 (from the universal installation
CD).
I installed Gentoo next to Fedora and used Fedora's grub installation.

The disk partitioning is as follows:
hda1 : (primary) "/boot"
hda2 : (primary) [swap]
hda3 : (extended)
hda5 : (logical) "/"  root for Fedora
hda6 : (logical) "/" root for Gentoo

My grub.conf is as follows:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=30
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img

title=Gentoo GNAP Development 2.6.12-r6
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda6 udev
	initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

At the first reboot, the kernel unpacks, etc...
But after a while it stops:

...
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7
vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03
vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
(nothing more)


Since 'vesafb' is last message I see, I think something goes wrong with
the graphical adapter.
However, I removed all kernel options that have to do with the
framebuffer and I disabled the grub plash image. It still stalls.

I assume installing Gentoo on an extended partition should not be a
problem?
Maybe the Gentoo install does not work well with Fedora's grub?

Any help and/or pointers are greatly appreciated...!

Marcel Romijn