Yes, I had missing the initial 'kernel-' from its definition in
grub.conf. It is down to me writing it on a pad with other stuff, I was
ignoring the kernel word. Extremely xorry.
Now it boots but asksme to
'specifya device to boot' it boots when I enter 'dev/hda3'. It is
specified in 'grub.conf' and 'fstab'. Any ideas?
Also, I get 'dhcpd:required function 'interface _is_up' but networking
isn't working. And, I get 'netmount not started'. Are these issues
related. Can you help?
Regards,
Gavin.
Drake Donahue wrote:
Grub really does work. The problem you are having is that grub can't
find your kernel.
May I suggest:
Boot the gentoo install cd:
At the prompt - livecd gentoo # - execute the following commands:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo/boot
ls -l
ls kernel* initramfs*
The output of "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo" will tell you about the
filesystem on the boot partition and should contain no surprises.
The output of "ls -l" is the boot file and directory structure
that grub will
see if "root (hd0,0)" is in grub.conf.
The output of "ls kernel* initramfs*" is the kernel name and the
initramfs
name that need to appear in grub.conf.
If a 'No such file or directory' error appears, the kernel and/or
the initramfs
is not located in /mnt/gentoo/boot and thus is not in (hd0,0)/ as far
as grub is
concerned. In this case look for a boot -->'something' symbolic link
that points
to 'something' as the kernel location. Most likely a boot directory
will appear
in the "ls -l" output and you should look there for kernel and
initramfs. If
mislocated, I think you should move them to /mnt/gentoo/boot and rerun
" ls kernel* initramfs* ".
I believe that the " ls kernel* initramfs* " output you see will be
"kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3".
In that case, I believe grub.conf should read:
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
If " ls kernel* initramfs* " produced other results, then "the
other kernel name" must be
substituted exactly for 'kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' above and "the other
initramfs name" for
'initramfs-genkernel-amd64-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' above respectively. Don't
lose the initial
slashes in the process.
If you try this and it does not help, posting the results of the
commands and the grub.conf
may get more help from the smarter than I multitude.
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