On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > > > I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, > > another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload > > gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to > > /boot > > "kernel-2.6.37-r4f", and symlinked it a vmlinuz. vmlinuz is the name I use > > in > > the Grub stanzas. Is Gentoo's Grub expecting the kernel to have a particular > > name, and I picked a wrong one? Or maybe what it doesn't like is that I > > uncommented splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz in menu.lst? >
I always just copy the bzImage to (for example) /boot/vmlinux-2.6.38-gentoo-r5, but the name doesn't really matter as long as it matches your bootloader entry. > > Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't > actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be > there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use > of the sectors there that didn't like the file format. > The install docs are fairly clear that installing the grub pkg is only the first step of setting up the bootloader. It seems to me (though I could certainly be wrong) that your best bet really is to perform a "vanilla install" first, as much as your hardware allows. Just to get to know the system before attempting to customize it. :) -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
