Hi everybody, Thanks for the replies.
I must change (hd1,4) to (hd0,4), however sda5 is my Suse's root partition. Interesting. 2007/8/7, cscscscscs cscscscscs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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." >
