Do you want to meet up after work and sort this out? Your laptop should be portable enough.
On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:40:08 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Morning, > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 00:06, InfoHelp wrote: > > > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>I believe the install is now ready to boot, with Suse partition's grub > >>entry amended to include Gentoo (same method already works to boot WinXP > >>& Knoppix), but: > >> > >>"Error 13: Unsupported executable format" > >> > >> > >> > > > >at what stage is this error given? > > > > > After Suse's Grub (menu selection) has passed the boot process on to the > Gentoo partition. > > (Stage 2 > 3?) > > I checked Grub's website FAQ & "Error 13" means the kernel isn't in a > recognised format to run. > > Final trial last night had me copying random possibilities, incl. > vmlinux, into /boot - none of which helped. > > I'll boot up the Gentoo target box from Suse again & send you ls /boot > to review. > > >>I have a kernel-2.6.5-gentoo > >> > (a copy rename from ../i386/vmlinux) > > > > >what is the name of the kernel image you moved to boot? > > > ^ ^ ^ > > 1st Q for the day is: if that kernel was compiled using Suse's 2.4.x, > can it be correct for booting 2.6.5-gentoo? > Unguided, I would be recompiling after booting & chrooting from the > LiveCD instead. > > >what does grub.conf say? > > > > > I'll send that too > > > > > > >> pointed to, but no vmlinuz > >>partition > >> > >> > > > >vmlinuz is not a partition, it is a kernel > > > The post was a stacked list, unpunctuated - sorry to confuse you. > > Less casual typing in future. :-) > > > > > > >> & reiserfs correctly identified > >>.. on the right track? > >> > >>Cheers, > >> > >>Rik > >> > >> > -- > InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8 > RedHat Linux 9.0 - Gnome 2.2.0 - OpenOffice 1.0.2 - Mozilla Mail 1.2.1 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
