Problem booting amd64 2004.1

dale77 · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand

When I try and boot from grub, the kernel loads up to where it tries to load the root partition whereupon it says that it is invalid.

my grub.conf looks like this:

default 1
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.5
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo root=/dev/hdg4

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

The disk is a SATA, hooked up to a VIA8xxx chipset on the motherboard. Booting the livecd, the disk shows as /dev/hdg and this is where I installed the gentoo stuff prior to putting grub on. /dev/hdg1 is windows, hdg2 is boot, hdg3 is swap and hdg4 is root.

My guess is that the kernel is not picking up my SATA, but I *did* compile SATA support for VIA into the kernel...

Any ideas how I can get this booting?

thanks

qxh · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 14

Does Windows boot?

EDIT: Also, do you get the splash image or just a black background on grub?

Maedhros · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

There are a few threads on this around...

While the livecd for no apparent reason calls your SATA drives hdg, the kernel you've just installed will probably call this /dev/sda.

Try changing your config to this:

jkt · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: Problem booting amd64 2004.1

dale77 · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand

dale77 · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand