I'd suggest Lilo for gentoo. it seems to work pretty well. I've had grub
blow up more than once on gentoo.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Jahn [mailto:eric@ejahn.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:42 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: Re: [SLUG] gentoo install
That's odd that you had to make that change. Here's the entire
grub.conf for my gentoo system:
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default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi
title=Backup Gentoo Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.older root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi
title=Really Old Backup Gentoo Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.orig root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi
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So you have your bzimage file sitting in the root folder? The only way
I can get to my bzimage is by doing a "mount /dev/hda1 /boot" and then
changing directories to the mounted boot directory. It works fine, but
I must confess, though, that since a new version of grub in the portage
tree, I haven't been able to scroll down and select my older kernel
versions to boot. It just starts the newest one automatically and
hitting the arrow keys does nothing. Oh well, I'll break out the boot
disk if there is a kernel failure.
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 01:06, Doug Koobs wrote:
> I found the problem... I had to change the format of grub.conf from
what the
> documentation describes. The docs said to use:
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
>
> I changed that to:
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzimage root=/dev/hda3
>
> and it works now.
> >
> > I'm attempting to install Gentoo 1.4rc4 on my Toshiba Satellite
4090. I
> > completed the whole install according to the Gentoo install doc, and
> > installed and configured Grub as the boot loader. But when I reboot,
all
> > I
> > get is a flashing cursor at the top of the screen... no Grub menu or
> > anything.
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