Re: [gentoo-user] Help

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:23 pm, C.Beamer wrote:
>
> hda1 is DOS
> hda2 is /boot
> hda3 is swap
> hda4 is my extended partition
> hda5 is /root
>
> The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows:
>
> default 0
> timeout 30
>
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
>
> root (hda0, 1)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc 
> ramdisk=8192
> real_root=/dev/hda5 udev
> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

I haven't tried booting with a RAM disk, so I can't comment on the 
other lines, but in the first there should be no space after the comma. 
IE:
    root (hda0,1)

as you've done correctly below:

> title=DOS
> root (hda0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>

> ...
> Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file?

I always do so by booting from the Gentoo LiveCD, mounting /dev/hda2 to 
/mount/gentoo, editing grub.conf with `nano` and then rebooting. You 
can experiment amply like this until you get it right.

Stroller.

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