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jacowhee
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 Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject: Stage 3 - Post Installation Problems... [SOLVED] |
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This is my first attempt at installing Gentoo, thus why I decided to go with the Stage 3 install. I followed the installation docs and everything was going great until I rebooted the system to bring it up for the first time.
I am attempting to dual boot with Windows XP on an Inspiron 8500 laptop.
The error I get when booting:
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>> Mounting filesystems...
Started device management daemon v1.3.25 /dev
>> Determining root device...
>> The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell.
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My partition setup:
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/dev/hda1 - Boot (32Mb) [ ext2 ]
/dev/hda2 - WinXP (23Gigs) [ ntfs ]
/dev/hda3 - Linux Swap (1Gig)
/dev/hda4 - / Root (Remaining Space of 40Gig drive...) [ ext3 ]
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My fstab file:
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# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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My grub.conf file:
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default 0
timeout 30
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_boot=/dev/hda4 ramdisk_size=8192
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-gentoo-r1
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.25
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_boot=/dev/hda4 ramdisk_size=8192
initrd /initrd-2.4.25-gentoo-r3
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
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In my fstab file I realized I am not listing the partition of my Windows XP installation, but is this necessary? I am most likely a newbie mistake so anything you notice that I might be doing wrong would be a big help - thanks!
-- Jacob
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ShadowHawkBV
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Were you purposely trying to install two different Linux kernals?
If you installed with GRP, you should edit the one in GRUB that has the kernel you installed to:
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root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.X.X-gentoo-rX root=/dev/hda4
initrd /initrd-2.X.X-gentoo-rX |
If you didn't use GRP then modifyGRUB like such:
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root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.X.X-gentoo-rX root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4
initrd /initrd-2.X.X-gentoo-rX |
I think that should sort it for you.
Note: X should be replaced with the proper numbers of the kernel varient.
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jacowhee
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Houston - we have lift-off!
Worked like a charm (the first one) so I am assuming I used a GRP package.
Thank you much!
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No worries, Glad I could help.
P.S. Remeber to help others when you become more experienced. If it wasn't for those initial people, we'd all be sitting and staring at a blue screen.
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