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drwhom
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I really hate to say this, but I fear I may have to surrender. I very much believe in the Gentoo ideal and everyone in the forums have been beyond helpful. Yet I still hit a wall during boot-up.
One more shot: I have a harddrive, CD-R, and DVD-R. I set my harddrive's partitions as instructed and receive three: hdc1, hdc2, hdc3. I fear my screw up is editing the fstab. I use tab-completion to set my GRUB in the MBR. Is this correct for my setup:
| Code: | root (hd2,0)
setup (hd0) |
Any help (and I have received much) is always appreciated.
Kevin |
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quiconque
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:53 am Post subject: |
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When you're setting up grub, to find out what your root is you can, after you've entered the grub shell, type | Code: | | find /boot/grub/stage1 |
and that will give you your root. And then if you want it in the MBR of your first drive, then you enter setup (hd0).
Tell me what "find" gives you, and provide your grub.conf.
Could you also post your fstab, so I may have a look? And what exactly goes wrong when you boot? |
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drwhom
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Hello again. I shall do that. Sunday morning I'll get back on it and post what I find. Thanks again. Write you tomorrow.
Kevin |
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drwhom
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Good morning. Good news, I think. I reinstalled and compiled. I didn't see any red !'s during boot up. Everything seemed normal and I am sitting at my login prompt. Here is the information you asked for:
| quiconque wrote: | When you're setting up grub, to find out what your root is you can, after you've entered the grub shell, type | Code: | | find /boot/grub/stage1 |
and that will give you your root. And then if you want it in the MBR of your first drive, then you enter setup (hd0).
Tell me what "find" gives you, and provide your grub.conf. |
Here's what I got for find /boot/grub/stage1:
Here's my grub.conf
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.22
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22 root=/dev/hdc3
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22 |
| Quote: | | Could you also post your fstab, so I may have a look? And what exactly goes wrong when you boot? |
Here's my fstab:
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/dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdc3 / xfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
When I installed GRUB in MBR I did receive (p.s. I don't know why html isn't working here)
[code]Running "embed /boot/grub/ezfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/ezfs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"...failed (this is not fatal)
[code]Running "embed /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage 2 p /boot/grub/grub.conf...succeeded
[/code]
Does everything seem fine? Should I proceed to setting up the desktop? I'll wait for your perusal and response.
Kevin |
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quiconque
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Good afternoon! Remember the terrible time difference? 
I must say that everything looks OK. Your grub.conf looks ok, and so does your fstab. You say that everything OK's during boot and you get to the login prompt and that's always a good sign! 
You go ahead and setup the desktop. |
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