On 17/06/10 11:02, Alex Schuster wrote: > walt writes: > > >> On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: >> >>> I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and >>> >>> strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get >>> is: >>> Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` >>> >>> root (hd0,1) >>> >>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 >>> >>> kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 >>> >>> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] >>> >> The only thing that looks a bit unusual is that your kernel-2.6.xxx >> appears to be in the root directory instead of in /boot where it >> usually lives. >> > No, that's okay, I have it the same way. The root (hd0,1) statement tells > grub where the boot partition is, and all other paths are relative to > that. > > Wonko > > Yeah, the original e-mail I mentioned that the second partition was an EXT2 partition for /boot, and yes, as per the install instructions. I never liked the way the Gentoo install put a symlink in /boot, pointing to /boot, in case you didn't do it that way, so the Grub menu would still work as it's provided (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-xxx-etc., so I take the /boot out of the Grub menu.lst file,and delete the symlink. OCD on my part, I imagine, but it works fine on my other Gentoo installs.
My first thought is that it's something in the kernel config I'm doing wrong, but I can't see anything that looks obviously wrong, and the lack of error message doesn't help things.
