> Yep, that's my next step. I'll possibly need to ask some
> questions about
> how to do that at this point. I don't want to do a complete
> reinstallation just to do that, and I doubt I have to. Can I not just
> mount the installation CD and then somehow mount and build the kernel
> from what's
> > I'm sort of guessing that it's the second option, and that
> > possibly the
> > initrd has a driver for the SATA controller. However, in my mind this
> > afternoon, that seems like a leap to assume that genkernel
> > figured out this
> > machine had an SATA controller and then built the driv
> > Grub is working right, you got something else going.. It looks to
> > me like its past grub and booting linux. Linux is trying to find
> > your ide controller cards and locking.. Or something to that affect.
>
> That's my thought too, but slightly different. hda-hdd are
> the chipset EIDE
> c
> Grub is working right, you got something else going.. It looks to
> me like its past grub and booting linux. Linux is trying to find
> your ide controller cards and locking.. Or something to that affect.
That's my thought too, but slightly different. hda-hdd are the chipset EIDE
controllers. It
Grub is working right, you got something else going.. It looks to me like its past
grub and booting linux. Linux is trying to find your ide controller cards and
locking.. Or something to that affect.
Wait.. you have > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:42, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is the difference.. If your using /boot as its own
> > > partition, you should use /kernel-blah. if your using /boot on
> > > your root partition, then its /boot/kernel-blah. What gentoo did,
> > > smartly, was just write out the
> >
> > Here is the difference.. If your using /boot as its own
> > partition, you should use /kernel-blah. if your using /boot on
> > your root partition, then its /boot/kernel-blah. What gentoo did,
> > smartly, was just write out the above because they put on the
> > boot drive a link. The boot
>
> Here is the difference.. If your using /boot as its own
> partition, you should use /kernel-blah. if your using /boot on
> your root partition, then its /boot/kernel-blah. What gentoo did,
> smartly, was just write out the above because they put on the
> boot drive a link. The boot -> . This e
> I'm pretty sure I did have the root command set to (hd0,0) to
> get this far.
> One difference between the Redhat docs I'm looking at and the
> Gentoo install
> page is that Gentoo recommends
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
>
> while Redhat would do:
>
> kernel /bzImage root=/
> Then it isn't counting your CD. It will not hurt your gentoo
> install either and your just trying to write to the mbr.. like I
> said, I thought I remember it counting cd's, but I could be wrong..
>
> When running the setup, it had to find your /boot drive.. SO you
> should be ready to go, just
>
> MAL,
>Hi. Thanks for the help.
>
>As Jeffery said, this write up on the Gentoo site seems to
> differ from
> what you're saying, unless I'm misunderstanding you. It would
> seem according
> to the Gentoo install doc that the CD is not counted.
>
>I think my confusion, or possib
> > Does grub's numbering include the CD, so the SATA drive would be (hd1)?
> > Or is it still (hd0)?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>
> Chapter 23, the section titled "Configuring GRUB".
>
> > I'm remote from the machine right now so I cannot try this until later
> > today
> > > Helpful information. Thanks.
> > >
> > > hda is a CDROM
> > > hde is the SATA drive
> > >
> > > Does grub's numbering include the CD, so the SATA drive
> > would be (hd1)?
> > > Or is it still (hd0)?
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
> >
> > Chapter 23, the sec
> > Helpful information. Thanks.
> >
> > hda is a CDROM
> > hde is the SATA drive
> >
> > Does grub's numbering include the CD, so the SATA drive
> would be (hd1)?
> > Or is it still (hd0)?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>
> Chapter 23, the section titled "Configuring
Mark Knecht wrote:
Helpful information. Thanks.
hda is a CDROM
hde is the SATA drive
Does grub's numbering include the CD, so the SATA drive would be (hd1)?
Or is it still (hd0)?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
Chapter 23, the section titled "Configuring GRUB".
I'm remote fr
Should be hd1... I have seen funnier things however..
Like was stated before, you can always type root (hd'TAB' and it will give you your
choices..probably hd0,hd1...
> Does grub's numbering include the CD, so the SATA drive would
> be (hd1)?
> Or is it still (hd0)?
>
> I'm remote from the m
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:28, MAL wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >I'm doing a new build tonight on an A7N8X type MB. The main SATA hard
> > drive has been showing up on /dev/hde. I've set up the drive like this:
> >
> > /dev/hde1 -> /boot
> > /dev/hde2 -> swap
> > /dev/hde3 -> /root
> >
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm doing a new build tonight on an A7N8X type MB. The main SATA hard
drive has been showing up on /dev/hde. I've set up the drive like this:
/dev/hde1 -> /boot
/dev/hde2 -> swap
/dev/hde3 -> /root
When I get to the grub installation portion of the build, would it be
corre
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