On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:40:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > Didn't we cover this already? You have GRUB installed to boot your > > other distros, all you need to do is add a stanza for Gentoo to your > > existing menu.lst. > > Subject only got touched. That's all I *need* to do. :-)
Yes :) > My machines have lots of installations[1], so my master bootloaders > only load default kernels (via symlink vmlinuz-cur), installation > kernel(s), memtest(s), or chainload. I maintain these manually. > > Bootloaders on my / partitions are chainloaded to for choosing among > multiple installed kernels per distro. Their menus are typically > maintained automatically by them rather than me. With GRUB2 you can simply source the other menu files from the main menu, I don't know if dinoGRUB had this feature. > >> Why is root=/dev/ram0 real_root= in the sample/prototype? > > > That's for using an initrd, specifically the one produced by > > genkernel. With no initrd you simply give the actual root device. > > I can't remember ever using a distro without an initrd before Gentoo, or > needing /dev/ram* to boot except for an installation kernel. Like I said, it's the genkernel way of doing things. I never liked genkernel so never had to deal with that. I used to create my own initramfs's, but dracut made it too easy so I let that do all the work now. -- Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them
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