[gentoo-user] grub

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop.
(big compile left to complete).
The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c):

root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13
boot
<system then boots; Issueing the second command, grub finds the
kernel with a few characters and a tab>


The system will not boot from any of the entries I've tried in
grub.conf:
Notice I've tried all sorts of partitions for the root=/dev/ entry.

#0
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13
root(hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda1  vga=791

#1
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13
root(hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda2  vga=791

#2
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13
root(hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda5  vga=791

#3
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13
root(hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6  vga=791

df <shows>
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             40964440   1207148  39757292   3% /
udev                    512540       224    512316   1% /dev
/dev/hda2               313200     36700    276500  12% /boot
/dev/hda7             23542444     32840  23509604   1% /usr/local
none                    512540         0    512540   0% /dev/shm


while the fstab <shows>:
dev/hda2   /boot       reiserfs    noatime,notail      1 2
/dev/hda5   none        swap    sw                      0 0
/dev/hda6   /           reiserfs    noatime             0 1
/dev/hda7   /usr/local  reiserfs    noatime             0 1
none        /dev/shm  tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec  0 0
proc        /proc     proc         defaults        0 0

/dev/hda1 is an unmounted NTFS partition for installing XP at
a later date.

I ran 'grub-install /dev/hd0' and the /boot/grub/device.map
looks like this:
(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/hda


Any ideas what I missed?  I pretty much followed the Gentoo Handbook
for amd64..

James


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