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 1Pu37Q-0007sg-VF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:26:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 878BB1C021; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5633A1C021 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so4355807iwn.40 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:25:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ogSDL82kkysrs5yPhmro6YOIfZjp4hsbKCfuDklkb9k=; b=KTJkwBAxtDHKT9b/DDm9Yk4Al62whN2aJH8A5irPZ8kV0DrLNA79LMh6JcM+agcZQm xeFXguAUW9lp8F+8FWfmDCXsNSoDqSk7HtMa4aGSGHlCjggYeTR5FGYdEvw52mhvMRrg kJSq/xUMBRULWj68vYWEXjq32Ctq2g/I/GOQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ge5ETMpypXtVDGAMTBRjeiToyE9qnueMFAic0IH6z04TKzjPQyA3/0ZlCx7IMrl6/E pCcHDPskjseoVw0VGCUH38G9HVDjRceqbf4ZJoiS7Q7LCqzDihsbDSdU663gILPEJ6C+ h+RwNaOGinvBavcgbbQDesWBQVaelOmNQb3rE= 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 Received: by 10.42.171.135 with SMTP id j7mr5000969icz.182.1298899507888; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.220.8 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:25:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D6B9F1B.4060201@optonline.net> 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> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:25:07 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 64a9ba606d248709933e1627c8bd3882 On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk wrote: > Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong. =A01) The > (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2). =A0That fixed the proble= m > with no Grub menu. =A02) 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. =A0It 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=3D/dev/sda7. --=20 Regards, Mick