--- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy new year! Happy new year to you all to! > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:16 -0800, BRM wrote: > [snip] > > All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find > the > > kernel when I select "Gentoo Linux" or try to manually run the > lines. I > > tried using "find" at the grub command prompt during the boot > process, > > but it couldn't find it either. I haven't tried the Slackware > kernel > > yet, as I am mostly concerned about the Gentoo kernel. > have you tried grubs completion? if you type "kernel (hd1,1)/" and > then > <tab> it should try and complete the line for you. (from the grub > command prompt, once you've booted into the grub shell) It could be > possible that your bios / grub have swapped the drive assignment > around > during boot. Try all your (hdx,y) combinations with grub completion > until you find one that has /gentoo on it. "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your system will look at the first device that the BIOS finds for a > bootloader. That 'should' be /dev/hda, but it could well be /dev/sda > (check device map and also use Grub's tab completion to see what the > BIOS/Grub sees first).
Thanks. I had tried tab-completion while at the grub command-line from the CD during install, but it wasn't working. When Grub came up, it was thinking hdb equalled hd0 instead of hd1. So while it worked fine with hd1 from the CD (it didn't like hd0 then), it was mixed up when grub actually ran. Any suggestions on how to fix this so that grub runs well from within Linux? "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check your /boot/grub/device.map to make sure that devices correspond > to the expected grub nomenclature. Also - (per Mick's e-mail) > > Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot > or > > /. > it shouldn't interfere with /boot or / That's what I thought, I just figured I mention it just in case. > > What am I missing? > don't know, hope my hints can help. Thanks, it sure did. :-> Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
