December 7, 2003
So yeah, I've had RedHat 9.0 running on my computer since it was released,
putting the / partition on hda and having a second hard drive on hdb for
backup and storage. I just installed a third hard drive (hdd) and would like
to put Gentoo on it, since I've read good things on it...
To make a long story short, I have Gentoo on that drive, but I'm having a
problem getting Grub to boot to it... Grub was installed by RedHat and is
located within the / partition of hda, so I'm trying to get it to point to
hdd instead... I can get into Grub and add in a few lines, but whenever I
try booting from Grub, it won't go. The exact lines I put into grub.conf
were:
title=Gentoo Linux (genkernel)
root (hd3,0)
kernel (hd3,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
initrd (hd3,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
Now, whenever I look at the information on hdd from the RedHat installation on
hda, I don't actually _see_ anything in the /boot partition of the Gentoo
installation, while I believe I'm pointing Grub to something in the /boot
partition... Perhaps I missed something?! ...however, I'm pretty sure I
installed everything as directed by the instructions provided on Gentoo's
website...
Essentially, my main question is: do I need to have a completely separate
partition for /boot on hda, or can I have "/boot" within "/" like it is now?
Can it "get out" to hdd when it's already looking within RedHat? And if I
should be able to, and if the lines above are seemlingly correct, are there
any suggestions as to how to fix the problem?!
Thanks! Good luck with finals, etc!
Andy
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Andy Linsenbardt
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