Because in Gentoo by default the /boot partition does not automatically mount, you need to mount that drive also as /boot. Do that, and try it again
Good Luck! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca -----Original Message----- From: maxim wexler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure Hello everybody, I have a typical dual-boot system: /dev/hda contains WinXP, /dev/hdb, gentoo. I had to swap out my linux drive with another (NTFS) drive. Since nothing would boot(grub error 17) I used a Win98 CD to get to a prompt and entered fdisk /mbr, thinking to reboot linux later from the livecd, mount the partitions, swapon, chroot etc as per the Gentoo-FAQ and enter grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda. But I got: Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a block device Why is it looking for /boot/boot? Attempts to use tomsrtbt and bare.i led to a kernel panic whatever partition I tried to boot. Nothing seems amiss in /boot that I can see. Any ideas? -mw __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
