On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:42, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > > > > > Here is the difference.. If your using /boot as its own > > > partition, you should use /kernel-blah. if your using /boot on > > > your root partition, then its /boot/kernel-blah. What gentoo did, > > > smartly, was just write out the above because they put on the > > > boot drive a link. The boot -> . This enables the above to work > > > either way you want your drive.. > > > > > > Redhats default install separates boot, so /boot will not > > work in grub. > > > > Interesting. Thanks for the info! > > > > I'll get back to you this evening, either with success or > > more questions. > > I'm learning about how to use grub's find here in the office, > > so I hope > > things will go smoothly later. > > I forgot to say that grubs default is to look for /boot in hd0,0.. And redhat > default install also puts /boot in that area.. > > Forgot to answer that question.
Hi, OK, I came home for lunch so I could take a try at getting further. I'm making progress, but it's still not booting. Results are the same whether working from the hard drive version of grub, or a floppy made when I did the install. I reboot, come up into grub and then edit the configuration. The best I have so far is: root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3 and then I type 'boot'. The machine gets further, down to the point of looking at the UDMA100 controller. It says ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA and hangs. Alt-CTL-Del doesn't work and I have to push the reset button. I assume these are just statements about how it would use the controllers if drives were there. The only drive that should exist at this point should be hda, the CDRW. I also tried root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 It made no difference. I also tried kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3 nodma and still fail, all the same way. Last evening, before I started the Gentoo install, I quickly tried to throw a copy of DOS on just to see what would happen. DOS would not boot and hung looking for CDROMS. If I booted a version of DOS that did not look for CDROMS, then DOS was fine. I'd wonder if this is an NForce2 chipset issue, but I know others have made the motherboard work, although I'm not sure if they've done it with SATA. Thanks again for all your comments. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
