On 05 August 2005 12:25, Dan Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment I'm trying to upgrade one of my old computers from SuSE to > Gentoo. I have install a second SCSI-disk and installed Gentoo on this > second disk using a stage-1 install. But when I try to boot my new install > GRUB hangs (kernel does not uncompress) after I have selected the kernel. > > This is the output from grub after selecting my gentoo setup. > > root (hd1,2) > Filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 > kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x165a46] > (and here it hangs....) > > I have installed grub to MBR of the first SCSI-disk (sda) and I'm having my > grub files on sdb3. > > Here's my grub.conf file: > > # By default, boot the first entry. > default 0 > > # By default boot the old SuSE (until Gentoo boots OK) > title SuSE > kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 acpi=off splash=silent > showopts > initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd > > # For booting Gentoo 2.6.12-r6 > title Gentoo 2.6.12-r6 > root (hd1,2) > kernel /kernel-2.6.12-r6 root=/dev/sdb2 acpi=off > > The second SCSI-disk (Gentoo) has the following partitions: > /dev/sdb1 swap > /dev/sdb2 / > /dev/sdb3 /boot > /dev/sdb4 LVM > > The Kernel is compiled without Module support and all necessary drivers are > compiled into the kernel.
Add "doscsi" to the kenel options. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
