On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:07:50 -0600, Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > I've tried all the stuff everyone has suggested. > I'm going to attempt to install LILO over Grub. > > Sam. did you use genkernel to compile your kernel? if so what version? if it was genkernel 3.xxx you have to use root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda3 search the gentoo forums (install section) for genkernel problems.... or check out the grub error collection on the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656 johnnyf > > The Wandering Dru wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> nate at refried.org wrote: >> >> | On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:20:51PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: >> | >> |> At the grub prompt you can find out the name of the files on your >> |> disk. >> | >> | >> | I remember doing this several years back but I can never figure out >> | how to do it when I need to. Could you please explain to the list, >> | step for step, how to do this? >> | >> Just like you do at the bash prompt, TAB completion. At the boot >> prompt, hitting the TAB key will give a list of commands you can use. >> If you put in "root" and then "(hd"<TAB>, it will give a list of >> possible partitions, choose one, <TAB> again and it will give you a >> list of files on that partition. Doing this, it's quite easy to boot >> a system without even having a conf file. >> >> - --Andy >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iD8DBQFAIcBKiwhv4FBqkV8RAg/0AJoCt13Pt1U0zVznE2Lrl+pNLr7nvQCghXVL >> j3rkEYk6XGN4LrLoE8j/92k= >> =RTuC >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list