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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3yNh-0005AC-Ft for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:01:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6LGw7qB002941; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:58:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6LGod1Z031631 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:50:39 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E111645EC for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29902-01 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C9A64508 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G3yCg-000166-Jx for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:50:18 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:50:18 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:50:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200607210152.31075.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <7573e9640607201727o747b755eu35b00591970bcb6d@mail.gmail.com> <20060721094439.1bcb02ca@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060616) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.583 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.016, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.583 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 92f84c10-4506-48fd-adeb-059144345360 X-Archives-Hash: fbaa87be04152e2c57b201ba8ccfb096 Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) > > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > > When it worked from the command line of grub? > Probably because you had a space after root on the command line, but not > in grub.conf. If you'd told us the error message GRUB gave, it might be > possible to guess the cause more accurately. Sorry, It gave no error at all, the screen went black and the system did nothing (locked-up), like it could not find the bootsector, thus requiring it to need a manual power-cycle. The system is busy compling xorg-x11, kde-meta et. al. When it finishes, I shall test Richard's theory and let you guys know what I learn, paying attention to the various combinations of spaces and no spaces. Thanks for all the help (from everyone), James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list