On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov <negai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line >> above I >> > do use dolvm. Will check on that though. >> >> Of course it won't boot then. >> GRUB 2 does not use grub.conf anymore. >> It reads /boot/grub/grub.cfg. This file is formed automatically by grub2- >> mkconfig command, you have to edit the parameters in /etc/default/grub. >> >> Did edit the new /etc/default/grub: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="dolvm" > > Still no booting. Hangs on loading the initial ramdisk ... > I can boot using systemrescuecd. Unfortunately I finalized the install of > grub2 and no longer have grub legacy installed. I regret that. Also, before > I finalized the grub2 install I tested the initramfs with grub legacy and > it worked. There were two new issues I addressed in this recent portage > sync. One was the use of a initramfs because my / and /usr are not in the > same filesystem. /usr is actually under lvm control. I created a initramfs > with genkernel (--lvm option) and as I stated earlier it worked with grub > legacy. So the problem is grub2 configuration at this point. > > Thanks for any help including info on how to go back to grub legacy if > necessary. > > Best, > > -- > Valmor > Does anyone know whether there is a place I can look for error messages? still no luck on booting with grub2. Thanks, -- Valmor
