Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:24:20PM -0600, Bill Jenkins wrote: > I'll try anything, but let me be sure i have it exactly right. > > ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.1st > > is that it? Change the number 1 (one) above to lower case l -- David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
Bill Jenkins wrote: How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get it to boot. Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted. I've compiled the scsi driver for my card, an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my /boot dir and made a simlink: ln -s /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought it might be looking for something by that name. (I may have it backward, but the link was named bzImage.) I've been doing this long enough to know that it's something simple but I can't figure it out. I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not impossible. What does your /boot/grub/grub.conf look like? -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub: error 8
How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get it to boot. Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted. I've compiled the scsi driver for my card, an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my /boot dir and made a simlink: ln -s /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought it might be looking for something by that name. (I may have it backward, but the link was named bzImage.) I've been doing this long enough to know that it's something simple but I can't figure it out. I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not impossible. many thanks, Bill Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
On Thursday 26 February 2004 04:39 pm, Kathy Wills wrote: > larryB wrote: > >>I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to > >>redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not > >>impossible. > >> > >>many thanks, > >> > >>Bill Jenkins > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That's funny to me. I am not having that much trouble with gentoo. > The problems I do run into, I can usually find my answers either > here, in the forum, or http://bugs.gentoo.org. The time I tried Linux > from scratch, I ran into problems compiling some of the basics and > never did find an answer to solve it. I'll stick with Gentoo. My problems are now solved, thanks to this list. Kathy, thanks for the additional tip to check bugzilla. There was nothing so useful when I was creating my Linux From Scratch (LFS) over a year ago (although there may be now). I also had problems compiling some of LFS, but was able to resolve the problems myself with the configure or makefiles (sometimes using trial and error). My LFS distro served me well until several hard disk crashes forced a new distro. I chose Gentoo, and was rather frustrated with many hours of fruitless attempts using different install methods. Thanks to this list, and the other help sources you have clued for me, my confidence is somewhat restored. Thanks, Larry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
Bill Jenkins wrote: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz root (hd0,0) Is your system a SCSI only system? Are you sure that /dev/sda1 really is (hd0,0) in GRUB-speak (you have tab-completion in the grub-shell so you can fiddle around in there to find out)? kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 What is the root=/dev/ram0 parameter for? I've never seen it before... I tried finding real_root in the online manual for grub, but I can't, what is it supposed to do? Have you tried just putting root=/dev/sda2 instead? init=linuxrc vga=0x317 splash=verbose I think you can remove this line too and just go with (I'd skip the splash part too): kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 Don't you mean: initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r7? My grub.conf would probably look something like this in your case: #grub.conf for scsi-dude default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz Title= Linux 2.4.22 root=(hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda2 vga=792 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 #end grub.conf Regards Linus (no not *that* one ;-) ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:08, Linus harling wrote: > > Regards > Linus (no not *that* one ;-) ) May as well take the credit if someone mistakes you for Torvalds. =) Sam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:36, Bill Jenkins wrote: > How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get it to > boot. > Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" IIRC there was a change for grub from /boot/grub/grub.conf to /boot/grub/menu.lst after an emerge I got into trouble booting, linking (ln -s) grub.conf to menu.lst solved it. Rudmer > I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted. I've compiled the > scsi driver for my card, > an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my /boot dir > and made a simlink: > ln -s /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought it > might be looking for something by that name. > (I may have it backward, but the link was named bzImage.) I've been doing > this long enough to know that it's something simple > but I can't figure it out. > > I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to redhat/debian/bsd, or > something that's merely difficult but not impossible. > > many thanks, > > Bill Jenkins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub: error 8
- Original Message - From: "Bill Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB. i think... > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 > init=linuxrc vga=0x317 splash=verbose > initrd (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 > > I'm writing this on paper and walking it from one room to another, so there > may be typos. I also tried it with the kernel path set to > (hd0,0)/boot/kernel /dev/sda2 is the root partition on my scsi > drive, but maybe i should have called it /dev/hda1? I get confused. I > originally tried to set up with lilo, but couldn't get lilo to find a > kernel. I'd just get rolling screens of 101010101. > > Thanks for the help. I'd really like to make this work. > > Bill > - Original Message - > From: "Sami Samhuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:51 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB. i think... > > > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:09, Bill Jenkins wrote: > > > I've been trying to load up gentoo for a while, and every time I think I > get > > > closer. This is my fourth try, a GRP and three stage ones. This time > it's > > > a stage one, and I can actually get the grub splash on boot, but it's > just > > > the prompt, and whatever command I try, I get the message that the > kernel > > > must be loaded first. What am I missing? > > > > > > Sleepily, > > > > > > Bill Jenkins > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Can you post your grub.conf for us to look at? > > > > Sam > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:36:08 -0600 "Bill Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get > it to boot. > Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" > I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted. I've compiled > the scsi driver for my card, > an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my > /boot dir and made a simlink: > ln -s /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought > it might be looking for something by that name. Did you post your grub.conf to this list? If so, I missed it. Please post it again. Did you mount /boot before installing the kernel? You don't need a symlink to bzImage; you can call the kernel anything you like, as long as you pass it to grub correctly in grub.conf. -- Barry Marler Information Analyst II Center for Applied Genetic Technologies University of Georgia Athens, GA USA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
You will find this is not the only error to give such problems. I have been unsuccessfully attempting to create a gentoo system for over a week - many faults. I believe it is too close to the cutting edge with its standard download distribution. Even after I got a system quasi-working on another box (which I am using now), emerging new applications broke old ones (e.g., sound). I too am about ready to revert to a distribution which is more reliable - Linux From Scratch. Sorry I can not aid you with your problem. On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:36 pm, Bill Jenkins wrote: > How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get > it to boot. > Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" > I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted. I've > compiled the scsi driver for my card, > an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my > /boot dir and made a simlink: > ln -s /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought > it might be looking for something by that name. > (I may have it backward, but the link was named bzImage.) I've been > doing this long enough to know that it's something simple > but I can't figure it out. > > I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to > redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not > impossible. > > many thanks, > > Bill Jenkins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
larryB wrote: I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not impossible. many thanks, Bill Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's funny to me. I am not having that much trouble with gentoo. The problems I do run into, I can usually find my answers either here, in the forum, or http://bugs.gentoo.org. The time I tried Linux from scratch, I ran into problems compiling some of the basics and never did find an answer to solve it. I'll stick with Gentoo. -- Kathy Wills + + Genealogy Web Site: http://www.brannanorwills.com + + + + -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
> I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to redhat/debian/bsd, or > something that's merely difficult but not impossible. > OK, boys and girls, in the true spirit of linux, I figgered it out by fiddling around. At the grub prompt, I entered grub> boot (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage where bzImage was a symlink to linux-2.4.22-etcetera, and I actually got, GUESS WHAT??? Half a freakin' boot. Kernel panic at the root filesystem mount with the following message: kernel panic:VFS unable to mount root fs on 8:02 spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 linux is such a tease, bill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8
I'll try anything, but let me be sure i have it exactly right. ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.1st is that it? I know the system just can't find the kernel, but i don't know why many thanks bill - Original Message - From: "Rudmer van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: error 8 > On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:36, Bill Jenkins wrote: > > How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working??? I can' t get it to > > boot. > > Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting" > > IIRC there was a change for grub from /boot/grub/grub.conf > to /boot/grub/menu.lst > > after an emerge I got into trouble booting, linking (ln -s) grub.conf to > menu.lst solved it. > > Rudmer > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
