From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwkXw-0007Si-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:45:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OHi9sN007507; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:44:09 GMT Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net (mra03.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6OHeCkF019085 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:40:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF64D4520 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:41:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra03.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30457-01-35 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:41:03 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (pornpipe.stroller.uk.eu.org [213.152.39.89]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D81D44E5 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:41:03 +0100 (BST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <42E3CEA7.4090306@interlynx.net> References: <42E3CEA7.4090306@interlynx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:41:06 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: edfb913f-c335-428b-a875-672989119601 X-Archives-Hash: 3f6aa1f88376a59bfbb66b45e8b031af 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list