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 1O9zeP-00047k-CR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 11:53:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0482FE07C5; Thu, 6 May 2010 11:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8198E07C6 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 11:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so3678738wyf.40 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 04:52:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5n2agoZBDwxEG2mgvp4dKKEhYKkKsPZDbu7uc6Iocu8=; b=fkkA2998gzKEajV74GfYIGMqgzjONWVA70+nppslHn5K8ew5ACBCP/CKkJl1d1wKG3 7LJfGkyY3uStyqfjdAmlfzcmzfXyP/LojTG9Dvo8xTUKsinztEu/FrOBvBN/tS4K2xZc h/f+Isk3XELcns+N0GBXU+XcJmti6pRxnyl4U= 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=BHx55ho6Vbjfq+FuSuqZcErHhp6xIO2CeL1qV2dd/nkgYqs+85OVveIfeDCo3QvsHe etrR3jR5g0FtqaY+vSoIpAp7lv1ro44pdLH84v4lrPO6acqJO+XvdaIspGshdtxbU+/7 I0GNqpeH/TJ1l9+zJMsMLqW+fxTgeCiyGwZBM= 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 10.216.89.193 with SMTP id c43mr3411516wef.151.1273146776011; Thu, 06 May 2010 04:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.156.21 with HTTP; Thu, 6 May 2010 04:52:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:52:55 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ab8eead2-2dcf-4759-b8a1-4cb34a6328b3 X-Archives-Hash: e2b67fc0af9c284c79b6a95673eb9a3d On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello all, > > I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds > the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the > kernel on the install cd. =A0The latter was downloaded and burned from a > very recent autobuild. > > The build process appears to complete successfully, with nothing > untoward in the logs. =A0However, the machine will not boot but hangs at > this point in the process: > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=3D/dev/ram0 init= =3Dlinuxrc ramdisk=3D8192 real_root=3D/dev/sda3 vga=3D791 > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=3D0x3000, size=3D0x2a8d80] > > This is the grub.conf: > > default 0 > timeout 5 > > title Gentoo genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=3D/dev/ram0 init= =3D/linuxrc ramdisk=3D8192 real_root=3D/dev/sda3 vga=3D791 > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 > > I have verified that the names of the kernel and initrd on the disk > match those in grub.conf. =A0In any case a wrong filename is usually > signalled as 'not found' during the boot process. > > Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd <--tab it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot partition= . Then search for the kernel image: kernel /boot/ <--tab If you have chosen the correct grub root partition you should find your kernel image in there. --=20 Regards, Mick