n00b, just finished the install and it works !!!

KaiNeR · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 100

I have just Finished my first install of gentoo, i used the pentium 4 portage snapshot (i think it was stage 3),
my only problem is that when i first boot up, i see the pretty gentoo dual boot screen which i created in grub :-)

(incase i decide to dual boot later)
When i select to boot the Gentoo OS it seems to start booting but then stops and asks me to specify a partition to boot from so i type in
/dev/hda1
naturally as this is my boot partition
boot = /dev/hda1
root = /dev/hda3
swap = /dev/hda2

after i type /dev/hda1 it boots ok, but i want it to just boot without any user help :-)

here is a copy of my grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.6.3

# Only in case you want to dual-boot
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

Selecter

Hauser · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

Try this, see if it works:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda3
#initrd /initrd-2.6.3

Or this:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.6.3
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nVidia FX5700LE; Hitachi 120Gb
2.6.9-nitro4, reiser4, linux26-headers+nptl

Do I like to compile everything?
Positive definite!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject:

KaiNeR,

In your /boot/grub/grub/conf try changing

KaiNeR · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 100

cheers Selecter that worked a treat, i was woundering i can now see all the boot info on the screen during boot (hardware and services being started) how do i get the Gentoo splash screen to load as an alternative ?
thanks

byrnerat101 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject:

to get a pretty screen at boot look into frame buffer and boot splash