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BillGatesOfHell
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Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: Totall Freakin Confused |
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ok, Im using the live cd to install gentoo, the one that actually loads gnome on startup. I have 2 hdd'd.
1 is hda which has win xp on it, The other is hdb with gentoo like this:
/dev/hdb1 = boot
/dev/hdb2 = swap
/dev/hdb3 = root
now im using grub for bootloader and i just dont get it cause it seems my files are all over the place??
| Code: | # Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted.
timeout 30
# Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up :)
# Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r9
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd1,2)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hdb3
# The next four lines are only if you dualboot with a Windows system.
# In this case, Windows is hosted on /dev/hda1.
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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To get to my kernel image i have to goto computer/filesystem/mnt/gentoo/boot--->kernel
to get to my splashimage i have to goto computer/filesystem/mnt/gentoo/boot/grub--->splashimage
is this correct?
is the fstab correct also?
| Code: | # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows auto noauto,noatime,users 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)
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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Please, ive spent nearly 3 days with this and im at my wits end and i dont want to reboot until its correct 
Thanx. |
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Headrush
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Joined: 06 Nov 2003
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Location: Bizarro World
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:09 am Post subject: |
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In GRUB, for the Linux section you have
should be
This command points to the root location of boot files, not the root partition of your system. aka /
So should be | Code: | title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r9
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd1,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hdb3 |
I would also change the filesystem from auto to ntfs for the Windows partition.
I'm not sure if that would cause an error, but for a static filesystem better to explicitly set the filesystem. |
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BillGatesOfHell
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Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:45 am Post subject: |
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ok i got mixed up with the numbering scheme there. So i have it currently looking for the kernal on the root partiton/hdb3 when it should be looking at hdb1/boot or hdb(1,0). ill change now and keep fingers crossed.
Thanx alot. |
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