On Friday 21 July 2006 01:35, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. > (big compile left to complete). > The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): > > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > boot > <system then boots; Issueing the second command, grub finds the > kernel with a few characters and a tab> > > > The system will not boot from any of the entries I've tried in > grub.conf: > Notice I've tried all sorts of partitions for the root=/dev/ entry. > > #0 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791
wrong > > #1 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 wrong > > #2 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 wrong > > #3 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 looks good, but try this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 hope it helps. if you use make install a vmlinuz symlink is created, so you don't need all your kernels in grub.conf. Only vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
