It's alive, somehow 2.6.11-r9 is running

suse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 139

My machine is a Fujitsu P 2040 TM5800 notebook. I used the x86 universal cd and follow the handbook instruction but missing the 'mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc' step. It just work nevertheless until 'cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab' to for installing grub. I back track and realize what I missed and 'exit;mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc;chroot ...".

It's booting okay but splashimage is not showing. Here is my grub.conf:

default 0
timeout 4
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r9
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9

'grub-install' failed complaining no block device. So I did grub manually. Is it still using grub.conf in this case?

This is my first gentoo so please help!

:lol:

fofo412 · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 27

did you use genkernel?

suse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 139

No I didn't use genkernel. I use the x86-universal.iso CD and did stage3.

fofo412 · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 27

should your hd be listed as (hd0,0) as opposed to (hd0,1)?

suse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 139

No, I have two partitions: hda1 is swap and hda2 is for files (including /boot) so for grub hda2 is (hd0,1).

If I use manual grub, is grub still reading grub.conf on boot?

bosyotech · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 1:40 am Post subject: