Course I'd much prefer using
Grub over Windows, or Lilo to boot my system.
right, linux good, Windows evil, but this way I can
easily swap many different drives with different OSes
on them without re-configuring a thing. And,
technically, lilo *is* being used to boot the linuxes.
Besides, as
On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:02 pm, maxim wexler wrote:
What are the results of this operation for you?
Specific messages please.
YIPPEE! all is cool 8-)
Nobody's suggestions worked. I tried every possible
combination of hdx with the same result: /boot or
/boot/boot or //boot (or some
I don't know about you, but on my machine /boot is where I mount the
boot partition, which has a boot directory. I'd get this error as
well if I specified --root-directory=/boot, have you tried dropping
it?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:43:19 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
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Hello
Because in Gentoo by default the /boot partition does not automatically
mount, you need to mount that drive also as /boot. Do that, and try it
again
Good Luck!
Michael Turcotte
Information Systems
City of North Bay
200 McIntyre St. E
PO Box 360
North Bay, Ontario
P1B 8H8
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Yes; since when is /boot on /dev/hda? Did you move
your WinXP drive
(which you said was /dev/hda, and does not contain a
/boot directory,
afaik) to another slot on the IDE cable and re-swap
your Linux drive to
the primary master?
I was hoping for something like my previous system
Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount
/proc before chroot:ing?
(That peice is hidden a little earlier in the
handbook).
I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ
re a kernel recompile in a broken system. Only I did a
grub-install instead.
-mw
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:40:56 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount
/proc before chroot:ing?
(That peice is hidden a little earlier in the
handbook).
I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ
re a kernel recompile
What are the results of this operation for you?
Specific messages please.
YIPPEE! all is cool 8-)
Nobody's suggestions worked. I tried every possible
combination of hdx with the same result: /boot or
/boot/boot or //boot (or some others I don't recall):
Not found or not a block device.
So I
