On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:45:38 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > That show's that /dev/hdb1 is mounted as /boot (which, BTW, is > completely irrelevant for GRUB).
wouldn't GRUB would need that location to use the kernel? > However, once it's mounted, does "ls -l > /boot" show a file called "kernel-has-alsa"? Yes: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ls /boot/ System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19- gentoo-r5 boot kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19- gentoo-r5-2 grub kernel-with-alsa initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 lost+found arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # date Sun Nov 18 02:40:23 PST 2007 arrakis ~ # > If not, that's your > problem. You're trying to boot a kernel that doesn't exist on (hd1,0). > > I also don't quite get the idea behind having two partitions for /boot > (hda1 and hdb1 in your case). One of them should be sufficient. hda1 is from Fedora, hdb1 is from Gentoo. I started with Fedora, then installed Gentoo from the live-CD (networkless). Yes, I suppose that the /boot/ at hda1 is superfluous, but then all of hda is marked for deletion :) -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
