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Brent Kilgore Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:09:31 -0800

Ok results of requested commands. I don’t think I have a boot partition as such. Fdisk –l gave me nothing, no error, just goes to next prompt.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot# ls

config-2.4.27-2-386 initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386 vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386

grub System.map-2.4.27-2-386

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot# cd grub

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot/grub# ls

device.map fat_stage1_5 menu.lst reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2

e2fs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 stage1 xfs_stage1_5

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot# mount

/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

/dev/hda3 on /cache type ext2 (rw)

/dev/mapper/mythvg-mythvid on /myth type ext3 (rw)

/dev/hda6 on /myth/mythtvburn type ext3 (rw)

/dev/hda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw)

usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

It appears, like everthing else with linux, Grub has outgrown a single config file and has fragmented them into a hundred (well 12) pieces. The docs have not caught up yet leaving me in confusion yet again.

I found something in X that let me config boot params. Extrapolating from another post that mentioned adding the video param to the grub boot screen makes me think I can just put it after the “root=/dev/hda1 ro” in the parameters box.

Will this work? Or more precisely will this fubar my boot if it doesn’t work. As long as I can fix it I will try it.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 3:41 AM
To: User discussion about IVTV
Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] (no subject)

On 03/12/05, Brent Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

All right. Lirc works. fb works. (I think) and tv-out works. I can wait
for tuner.o for a while.

How do I keep ivtv-fb from eating my consoles? I found that
"video=vc:64-64" thing that I am supposed to place in the grub.conf
file.

Unfortunately that file does not exist, I am not sure where to place it
and how to reconfigure grub to use it.

Thanks.

A possible reason for grub.conf not existing is that the /boot partition isn't mounted.
Most distro's these days place boot in it's own partition (helps deal with various issues) and some don't automount it, as a security precaution.

Check to see if you have any files in boot
ls /boot

check your mount table
mount

and your fdisk tables
fdisk -l <-- that's a lowercase L

you can mount boot with
mount <disk-device> /boot

where <disk-device> is the boot partition from fdisk.

The other likely reason would be that your system's using Lilo, that should become evident from the ls -l /boot command.

If you have any problems, then post the output of the above commands.

Ant.

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