On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:21:19PM +1000, Marc Forrest wrote: > Hello, > I have been trying to install gentoo 1.4 on my laptop 'IBM thinkpad' but > cannot boot from the harddisk. I have followed the instructions in the handbook to > the letter, the only odd occurance that happened was when using genkernel to > compile, I recieved this message: > > "copying system.map to /boot/system.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 > mv: cannot stat 'boot/system.map': no such file" > > below I have placed the commands I used to setup grub and below this is the fstab > and grub files, please help I'm stuck? > > grub>root (hd0,0) > grub>setup (hd0) > > > My fstab file /etc/fstab > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 > > > My grub file /boot/grub/grub.conf > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 > initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 > The new genkernel doesn't mount /boot automatically. You will have to mount it manually yourself.
mount /dev/hda1 /boot or mount /boot Then you can rerun genkernel or copy the necessary files to /boot. HTH Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
