Hi,
Last weekend I installed Gentoo 2005.1 (from the universal installation CD).
I installed Gentoo next to Fedora and used Fedora's grub installation.
The disk partitioning is as follows:
hda1 : (primary) "/boot"
hda2 : (primary) [swap]
hda3 : (extended)
hda5 : (logical) "/" root for Fedora
hda6 : (logical) "/" root for Gentoo
My grub.conf is as follows:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=30
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title=Gentoo GNAP Development 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda6 udev
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
At the first reboot, the kernel unpacks, etc…
But after a while it stops:
...
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7
vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03
vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
(nothing more)
Since 'vesafb' is last message I see, I think something goes wrong with the graphical adapter.
However, I removed all kernel options that have to do with the framebuffer and I disabled the grub plash image. It still stalls.
I assume installing Gentoo on an extended partition should not be a problem?
Maybe the Gentoo install does not work well with Fedora's grub?
Any help and/or pointers are greatly appreciated…!
Marcel Romijn
