To keep quotations intact, I'm bottom-posting, even though it's more inconvienent...
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Barry Marler wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:53:17 -0500 (EST) > Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... > > Did you mount /boot? I mounted: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/ mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot Contents: /mnt/gentoo/boot boot grub lost+found /boot boot boot-bmp.b boot-menu.b boot-text.b chain.b grub mbr.b os2_d.b Which would explain why now when I select Gentoo to boot I get the message: filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Error 15: file not found Now, given the comments about copying the kernel over and not remembering doing that (which seems to be confirmed by the lack of it's presence) I went over the directions in the install manual again for that part of the load. I see it as part of the instructions if you manually configure the kernel, but it is *not* part of the instructions if you use "genkernel". (Which I did.) Do you think something errored out that I didn't notice, or that the isnructions are incomplete for this step? Or something else entirely? Or...? Thanks again, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
