Didn't have /boot mounted when you copied the kernel? It does not mount by default.
Forgive me if this was covered, as I did not see part one. On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:53, Krikket wrote: > Okay, I was able to edit GRUB to make things the way they should be, but I > still am unable to boot the system. > > I'm not sure what's wrong... The details of the install so far: > > hda1 -> Boot > hda2 -> Swap > hda3 -> Blank (When I figure out how, I want to mount this partition as > /extra ) > hdb1 -> / > > My /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf file: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.g2 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.24 > root (hd0,0) > kernal (hd1,0)/boot/kernal-2.4.24 > root=/dev/hdb1 vga=794 > > The problem that I'm seeing: When I hit return (or wait for the system to > auto-load) I briefly get a blank screen and less than a second later, I'm > returned to the GRUB menu. > > In taking another look at things, I cd'd /boot and didn't see a > /kernal-2.4.24. (For that matter, I didn't se a /kernal*) But I didn't > notice any errors when building the system... > > Somehow I'm guessing I managed to skip a step. Any idea what I missed? > > Rather than manually confiuring the kernal, I used genkernal. So it > should be there somewhere... > > Thanks again, > > Krikket > (Hopeing that I won't have to redo a bunch of the build...) > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
