Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:49:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > I see. What I do is to embed the initramfs into the kernel image. Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that option. > Works > fine as long as everything you need to setup / is compiled into the > kernel statically. There's also one scenario wher

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:41:05 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > The alternative would > > > be to use a separate /boot and mess around with initramfs images to > > > load / from LVM, which is extra hassle and another potential point of > > > failu

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:41:05 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > The alternative would > > be to use a separate /boot and mess around with initramfs images to > > load / from LVM, which is extra hassle and another potential point of > > failure. > > Want my scripts? ;-) I'd be interested to see t

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs > > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for > > everything else. > > What if you need to resize

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > One physical partition used by LVM, but then several logical > > partitions on that. > > Guess you wanted to write logical volumes. A logical partition is > something different. It could mean that inside the big LVM partition, > you would create logical partitions by u

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I > don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I tend > to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for > everything else. What if you

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > Hello Allan Gottlieb, > > > > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > > > LVM partition for everything else. > > > > Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a > > motivation was to be able to mo

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Allan Gottlieb, > > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > > LVM partition for everything else. > > Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a > motivation was to be able to move space from one partition to another. One physical partiti

gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
[Sorry for the previous post just quoting neil--finger slip] At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > LVM partition for everything else. Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but tho

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > >> > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every >> > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. >> >> There's nothing wr

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every > > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. > > There's nothing wrong with having it mounted, only generally there's no > reason to access it after bo

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:57, sain yan wrote: > >Because you didn`t mount /boot? > > Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec 0 0 It's not an error really. You are not meant to

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread sain yan
only generally there's no reason to access it after boot yes!! == I'm sorry for my poor english!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:38:22 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:57, sain yan wrote: > > >Because you didn`t mount /boot? > > > > Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab > > > > /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec > > 0 0 > > It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:57, sain yan wrote: > >Because you didn`t mount /boot? > > Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec 0 0 It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every time you boot - only when

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-07 Thread sain yan
Because you didn`t mount /boot? Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec 0 0 THANKS EVERYBODY !! -- == I'm sorry for my poor english!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext sain yan: > Hi > On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! > But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? Because you didn't mount /boot? > and I install another kernel , Then write the file "menu.lst" at > /boot/grub/

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Gibbons
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:51:10 +0800 "sain yan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! > But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? > > > and I install another kernel , Then write the file "menu.lst" at > /boot/grub/menu.

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Don Jerman
On 7/5/07, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Yes, if you followed the Gentoo install instructions closely /boot is not mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: > 2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: > > > Hi, > > > [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> > > > grub.

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dominik Żyła
2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: > Hi, > [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> grub.conf > [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinr

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: > Hi, > [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> grub.conf > [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Config

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007, sain yan wrote: > Hi > On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! > But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? > > > and I install another kernel , Then write the file "menu.lst" at > /boot/grub/menu.lst, > But Grub DON`T re

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Waring
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:51:10PM +0800, sain yan wrote: > On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! > > But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? The file you want is stored as: /boot/grub/grub.conf on Gentoo systems. You need to edit that file in order

[gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread sain yan
Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file "menu.lst" at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? anybody help me? tha