On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: > > > As yesterday, I don't have my notebook at hand. I will check > > > tonight. What should be the content of device.map? Is it > > > generated by grub? > > > > With your one and only drive it will look like this: > > > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > > > It describes a mapping between linux disk devices and what grub > > will call them. > > Who generates this file? Grub, default from Gentoo?
I believe grub-install creates it. > > I just thought of something else: when you run grub-install, are > > you doing it from a properly booted system, from inside a chroot, > > from a rescue disk (where your gentoo filesystem is mounted > > somewhere), or a different environment altogether? > > I am following the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. So I run the > installation cd, and call grub-install from within the chroot > environment (I work remotely using a ssh conection to the > installation machine) OK. Do you have a separate /boot partition? Is it mounted? If so, you should be using: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
