Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-31 Thread Douglas James Dunn
i dont know its purpose but there is a link to the boot directory thus boot links to boot. and it that directory is another link to boot. but but it should be a symbolic link so you can cd into /boot/boot/boot/boot forever and it should still be in the topmost directory even though pwd shows it as

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-31 Thread cifroes
Leiaz wrote: I don't know if it will help you, but i installed grub following the manual too and the path to my grub.conf is /boot/boot/grub/grub.conf. (my boot partition is mounted at /boot/ and i have another directory called boot on it). The grub program is in /boot/grub/. Maybe you can try c

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-30 Thread Nick Rout
you could try creating a link called menu.lst in your grub directory, as a link to grub.conf On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:21:02 + cifroes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:52:42 +, cifroes wrote: > > > > > > > >>title=gentoo > >>root (hd0,1) > >>k

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-30 Thread cifroes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:52:42 +, cifroes wrote: title=gentoo root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda5 Which partition holds /boot? If it's not /dev/hda2, the root statement is incorrect. it is /hda2... not that problem... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:52:42 +, cifroes wrote: > title=gentoo > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda5 Which partition holds /boot? If it's not /dev/hda2, the root statement is incorrect. -- Neil Bothwick You may have mail. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-30 Thread Leiaz
cifroes wrote: Hi I installed gentoo following the manual but when it comes to the reboot part i just get a grub shell, it doesn't boot auto... But if i do kernel /kernelXXX and boot it boots fine... i rechecked my grub.conf and it has the correct kernel, any ideas? My /boot/grub/grub

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-29 Thread cifroes
Scott Stoddard wrote: When 2.6 kernels are installed (the 'make install' part), the kernel is copied into /boot as vmlinuz-2.6.XXX, but there is a symlink created which is just vmlinuz. That way your grub.conf can look like the snippet shown below: title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /v

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-29 Thread Scott Stoddard
cifroes wrote: Hi I installed gentoo following the manual but when it comes to the reboot part i just get a grub shell, it doesn't boot auto... But if i do kernel /kernelXXX and boot it boots fine... i rechecked my grub.conf and it has the correct kernel, any ideas? My /boot/grub/grub

[gentoo-user] gentoo install problem / grub

2005-01-29 Thread cifroes
Hi I installed gentoo following the manual but when it comes to the reboot part i just get a grub shell, it doesn't boot auto... But if i do kernel /kernelXXX and boot it boots fine... i rechecked my grub.conf and it has the correct kernel, any ideas? My /boot/grub/grub.conf: ( I have