On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 10:39 -0800, David Kaiser wrote: > On 30Dec2004 10:13AM (+0000), qosler wrote: > > /dev/hda1 boot 1gig > > /dev/hda2 swap 1.5 gig > > /dev/hda3 root 4gig > > That seems like a monster biig boot partition. Is that your /boot ? > Does gentoo need that to be 1gig?
agreed, no it should be around 100 MB > > I regularly use about 100Mb, and still never run out of room. > > I'm wondering if your /boot partition has gone over the Cylinder 1024 > boundary? Can you use an fdisk tool and see what cylinder your hda1 > partition ends on? > doubt this is the issue as newer hardware, and especially grub doesn't seem to suffer from the 1024 boundry issue. When you first boot up I would attempt to edit your grub config by pressing e then press e on the kernel line and erase everything. Use tab completion to see what grub is reading from your root device. Go from there. If it's not able to read the boot partition, that would be why it's not booting, its also possible that your kernel is not named what you think it is. -- Joel Brauer Manager IS Software and Systems Integration Loma Linda University [email protected] 909-558-7713
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