On 10/31/05, Mihai Rusu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > This might be just something stupid I'm missing but here it goes: > after installing "another" OS these days I needed the usual trick to > boot my gentoo hdd partition from a gentoo x86_64 cd kernel and run > grub-install (the "other" OS overwrittes the MBR at installation). > > As usual I try to boot a mini x86_64 gentoo installcd like: > gentoo-nofb root=/dev/hda2 noinitrd > > This works well with 2005.0 (and the older images I have tried, even > when I was running x86) but does not with 2005.1. It seems to ignore > "noinitrd" parameter and still load it and continue the normal cd > booting sequence instead of mounting my hdd partition as root after the > kernel boot :( > > Any hints ?
Even then, you can still mount /dev/hda2, then chroot into it, and finish your grub installation, can't you? :) -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- [email protected] mailing list
