Re: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-22 Thread Oleg
Thanks for the input (and to Noam), but in the meantime I found the solution to the problem. I just ran grub-install, and it worked fine. Oh, ok then. I guess there are some cases that the Gentoo install instructions do not cover... Heh, you can say that again, 1.4rc1 of Gentoo (aka latest)

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-22 Thread Martin Polley
Oleg wrote: Heh, you can say that again, 1.4rc1 of Gentoo (aka latest) has that annoying bug that you should add init=/dev/hdX to the kernel line in grub or you get kernel panic, and devfs is really not so good, lots of errors, read-only filesystem when it should be rw and so on. In 1.2 I

Re: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
grub root (hd2,0) setup (hd2) quit (My Gentoo install is on /dev/hdd, which comes out ad hd2 because of the CD burner on /dev/hdb). Then you just create an appropriate /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Have you created and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst ? Do you aware that hd2 is the 3rd

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Polley
install problem (GRUB problem?) grub root (hd2,0) setup (hd2) quit (My Gentoo install is on /dev/hdd, which comes out ad hd2 because of the CD burner on /dev/hdb). Then you just create an appropriate /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Have you created and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst ? Do

Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-19 Thread Martin Polley
I remember seeing a lively discussion on the list a few weeks ago about Gentoo, so I figured at least a few people must have installed it :) I have installed the latest (v1.2 for i686) version using the stage 3 tarball (I only have a dial-up connection...). I followed the instructions to the