Hi All, After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo install trial run.
All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot into DOS okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo. Ergo, I think the grub install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file. Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook. Details are as follows: I have a dual boot system: hda1 is DOS hda2 is /boot hda3 is swap hda4 is my extended partition hda5 is /root The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hda0, 1) kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 title=DOS root (hda0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the command 'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*' as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. Have I missed something or done something wrong? Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message when I try to boot into Gentoo that says: Error 15: File not found This displays immediatedly after the line kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev Any assistance would be appreciated. And please remember, I am not stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad. I've been running Linux at home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora. However, I'm finding that with each release of Fedora, more "quirks" appear. Things that I was able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without "letting some blood". Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can install the software from source using emerge. This will be a learning curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was! Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete details be stated for any help that is provided. And if you tell me that I "screwed up royally" and have to start all over, that's okay. That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know before installing Gentoo on a "production" system. BTW, I did a "Stage 3" install. Since it was my first time and I don't know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my head. :-) Thanks in advance for any assistance. Respectfully, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
