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gentoobobby
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 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: Installing probs |
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Just thought i had done everything well installed grub and restared the machine got a black screen , put my live cd back in the machine and booted it backup mounted all the folders i have been using again
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount -o bind /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount proc -t proc nojne /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount tmpfs - tmpfs /mnt/gentoo/dev/shm
mount none -t tmpfs /mnt/gentoo/tmp
I thgink my grub config is where i am going wrong but im still not sure here is a copy of my grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0) /grub/splash.xpm.gz
#genkernel users
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init/linuxrc ramdisk=8129 real_root/dev/sda3 udev
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
i had a look at this a all seemed fine compared to my other grub.conf file on my other machine , Is there anything i could be doing wrong i have missed in the installation ? I dont seem to be able to do a grub install anymore either it did work the frist time before i rebooted . Not really sure what has gone wrong but also i get no splash when the machine starts ? thanks any help would be very very helpful |
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bkunlimited
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| in case you don't have a separate /boot partition, change all (hd0,0) statements in your config file to (hd0,2) to match your configuration. |
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gentoobobby
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Im just going to try that now i dnt understand what im doing wron i have installed gentoo many times this week and have tried 4 times today im haing toruble with the installer guides thogh i do follow everything but something i find thye do not explaine cleary , I hope this works cheers mate |
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gentoobobby
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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na that hasent worked , i guess i just keep meessing it up does any one no of an instalation guide thats real simple and easy to follow , i get stuck on things like what i should be mounting and what directorys i should be making.
I fiollw the install steps threw and threw i had it working the first time i ever tried to install the thing and now i cant get it working again . Sorry top blab |
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| If you get nothing but black screen then try disabling framebuffer. |
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nataniel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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bkunlimited told you that you haven't separate /boot partition or you've forgotten to mount it. So you have to use other conf of hdx,x -- apropriate to your partition.
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gentoobobby
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Hey man yeh i have no idea of how to do that , but im gona try a fresh install once more if i cnat do that there is deffo something wrong that im doing i have installed a server with appache on fine i dont understand why im having problems , When i go intsall gentoo could any 1 possibly tell me what directorys i need to make and mount
and what needs to go in my fstab file i think this is where im having my problems
im using 3partitions
hda 1 boot and im having this ext2
hda2 swap
hda3 reiserfs this is the main system
and when i do install-grub what would i need to add the black screen with just grub on it
grub>
is thetre anything else peopel could give me some tips on as i seem to be messing something |
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nataniel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Have you mounted /dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot??
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gentoobobby
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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nope im going to try this quickly before i try a reinstall
so when i mounnt
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
should i do the boot 1 to ?
aslo if this does work what else do i need to add to make my intsallation work ? [/list] |
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wmakowski
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Your boot should be mounted to /mnt/gentoo/boot.
| Code: | | mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
Earlier you were talking about directories to create. The only one that needs to be created is /mnt/gentoo/boot. This is done before mounting /dev/sda1. Essentially you are creating a mount point for your boot partition.
A few other questions popped up while reading your post. In one reply you talk about hda1, hda2, and hda3. In your first post there is an = sign missing between real_root and /dev/sda3. There also appears to be a space between (hd0,0) and /boot/splash.xpm.gz that should not be there. Were these just a slip on the keyboard? If not, we have some other issues.
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gentoobobby
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Yeh that was a slip of the keyboard sorry i have everythin working except my boot splash which i guess isnt a slipof the keyboard , but now i have some grpahic erroe while booting into gruub |
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