Manually install not genkernel.
I guess my question would be why are the instruction on the Gentoo site
incorrect if Grub 3.xxx has issues.
In any case I'm starting over again and will use Lilo not Grub.
Grub has not worked properly and I can only take so much...
Sam.
Johnny Fulcrum wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:07:50 -0600, Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com>
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>> I've tried all the stuff everyone has suggested.
>> I'm going to attempt to install LILO over Grub.
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>> Sam.
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> 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
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> 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
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>> The Wandering Dru wrote:
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>>> nate at refried.org wrote:
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>>> | On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:20:51PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote:
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>>> |> 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.
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