[gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread reader
Just when I began to think I knew a thing or two about grub I'm finding I am failing to get a working grub.conf going on a new install. True, the install is inside a vmware machine on windows vista but that has not presented a problem in previous versions of windows and it does not appear to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from grub command line. root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 Nope. Kernel needs a root=device parameter. It can't know what is your

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread John covici
on Thursday 04/24/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from grub command line. root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the John covici: on Thursday 04/24/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from grub command line. root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms)

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 April 2008, darren kirby wrote: Well, I had to put a lot more parameters for it to work -- I am not using grub but my parameters aside from the ro are init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2 udev and some more specific to me.  I am using something close to the