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asianboi2k
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 Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: gentoo seperate drive installation |
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Allright here is the thing, I have two hardrives 1 120Gb and the other 80gb. I am trying to install gentoo on the 80GB and setting the boot partition and formatting the mbr on the 80gb without touching the 120gb. The way I would acces my linux distro would be to turn off the primary drive 0, and leave the primary1 drive on that way the drive would boot without interference.
The problem is when I start the pc I come to a black screen not that purple splash screen. When I press enter the thing says starting "gentoo 2005" or something. THen the system restarts. Here are my fstab and grub.conf files.
btw: hda is the 120gb = primary 0
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hdb is the 80gb = primary 1
Even though primary 0 is turned off knoppix gives it a status of hda.
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#"/etc/fstab"
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 00
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 00
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#"grub.conf"
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2005
root (hd1,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hdb3
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Any help would be appriciated, this beforehand. |
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freelight
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Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| This is probably a problem with your kernel configuration. Go through it carefully to make sure everything is correct. |
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asianboi2k
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I am probley missing a few modules that I couldn't find in gentoo when I did "lsmod" in knoppix. Is there an easier way to scan for modules like a test fail option so that it goes to every parameter to see if anything responds to it when invoked? I way it would be easier to gather all the modules that a specified to a system and disable ones that don't reply. |
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cyrillic
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: gentoo seperate drive installation |
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| asianboi2k wrote: | | The problem is when I start the pc I come to a black screen not that purple splash screen. When I press enter the thing says starting "gentoo 2005" or something. THen the system restarts. |
Your (hd0) and (hd1) references in grub.conf are backwards.
When you switch the boot order in the BIOS, like you have done, it also switches GRUB's drive numbering like this:
/dev/hda = 120GB = (hd1)
/dev/hdb = 80GB = (hd0)
The drive number needs to be correct on the splashimage line too in order to get the purple menu. |
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