Hi folk, First of all sorry if my English is not perfect.
I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memory and other tests: everything is OK with my computer. However, the install succeeded only for the sixth time. 'Now' the main problem is that GRUB returns with error code 15. I've read the documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml ; however it didn't help. The kernel image is where it must be. I have got two HDD-s with SATA interface. My system is installed on sdb. Here are my partitions, beginning from the 0. cylinder: First: sdb5 ext2 /boot Second: sdb6 ext3 / Third: sdb7 ext3 /home Fourth: sdb2 swap As other Linux distributions boots fine from logical partitions I think this shouldn't be the reason. (After sdb2 there are 2 more primary data partition (with no influence to the system)). I think GRUB is in the MBR of sdb. (One thing is 100%: the MBR of sda remains untouched, however the installer hasn't asked where to install it.) grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd1,4) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sdb6 doscsi initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 Everything looks to be good, but I have no idea what does root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 mean and why appears 'ramdisk'. Reading through many pages about Gentoo linux, and it's "power", "freedom", "choices", package management ...etc. this distribution looks like very fine. I'm now totally depressed.... The last thing for the rest is reading the 100 pages documentation of GRUB. It's very complicated for as an 'beginning difficult'. Thank you in advance for the help. P.S.: Please don't ask me for repartition my hard drive. I hope that a simplier solution exist. "Everything has a reason. Must be."
