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poet1493
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 Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:10 am Post subject: Grub and Dual boot |
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I just installed gentoo on my puter and i made it a dual boot with grub i have oh hda my win xp and then on hdf i have gentoo so i just rebooted after install and grub gives me the choice of gentoo or win xp i tried to go into gentoo but i get this error
booting ` Gentoo Linux"
root (hd3,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel (hd3,0) /boot/bzImage root=hdf3
error 1: filename msut be either an absolute pathname or blocklist
please some one help me..... |
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Helena
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:08 am Post subject: Re: Grub and Dual boot |
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| poet1493 wrote: | I just installed gentoo on my puter and i made it a dual boot with grub i have oh hda my win xp and then on hdf i have gentoo so i just rebooted after install and grub gives me the choice of gentoo or win xp i tried to go into gentoo but i get this error
booting ` Gentoo Linux"
root (hd3,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel (hd3,0) /boot/bzImage root=hdf3
error 1: filename msut be either an absolute pathname or blocklist
please some one help me..... |
You have to change the grub line to | Code: | kernel (hd3,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdf3
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assuming your numbers are right. So no space after (hd3,0) and correct root= option. |
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poet1493
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i forgot to put that in there it is
kernel (hd3,0) /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdf3
so is there anything else that it could be ?
i have heard something about linking but i dont know how to do it |
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cyrillic
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| poet1493 wrote: | | I just installed gentoo on my puter and i made it a dual boot with grub i have oh hda my win xp and then on hdf i have gentoo ... |
You only mention 2 of your harddrives (hda and hdf), but you are telling GRUB that the kernel is located on the 1st partition of your 4th harddrive (hd3,0). If you don't have that many harddrives, you should probably tell GRUB (hd1,0) instead.
And like Helena said, get rid of the blank space in front of /boot/bzImage
This might fix part of the problem you are having. |
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poet1493
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject: All better |
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i finally got it all worked out. i would like to thank you all for trying to help me get this working
what i had to do was take the (hd3,0) out of this line
| Code: | | kernel (hd3,0) /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdf3 |
to read like this
| Code: | | kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdf3 |
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