> Most modern BIOS have the option to boot from a lot of devices, you
> can check if your BIOS have options to boot from hd1, or primary
> slave, whatever your BIOS call it, just enter the SETUP and check for
> it.
Yeah, it is already configured to start the first Hard Disk.
> LILO won't help you, you're installing the boot loader in a slave
> disk, whatever you do, your BIOS will still call for the master (in
> most cases), check your grub config twice, change it for the slave
> drive (hd(1,0)?!) and change your BIOS to boot from the slave...
I really haven't checked for it, but i did "emerge lilo" to have a try
at lilo, anyway. After that, I "emerge --unmerge grub" it. Hope I
haven't done something too wrong.
Finally, I did:
cd /usr/src/linux
make install
After that, I had the folowing "/boot" content:
# cd /boot
# file *
System.map: symbolic link to `System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1: ASCII text
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old: ASCII text
System.map.old: symbolic link to
`System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
boot: symbolic link to `.'
boot.0340: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48
config: symbolic link to `config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1: ASCII English text
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old: ASCII English text
config-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10: ASCII English text
config.old: symbolic link to `config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
grub: directory
kernel-gentoo-2.6.12-gentoo-r10: x86 boot sector
lost+found: directory
map: data
vmlinuz: symbolic link to `vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1'
vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1: x86 boot sector
vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old: x86 boot sector
vmlinuz.old: symbolic link to `vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old'
Now, after rebooting, it really went straight, with text menu. It
starts loading really fast the system,but all of a sudden, a "Kernel
Panic" says:
Warning - Unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not suncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
Which "init=" I should use ? the problem is the lack of a "initrd"
file ? I tried to read mkinitrd man page, but I guess this does not
apply.
This is the lilo.conf.
lba32
boot = /dev/hdb
default=gentoo
menu-scheme=Wb
prompt
delay = 50
vga = 791
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdb1
label = Gentoo
read-only # read-only for checking
I adapted it from sample file. I can see that :
1) there was something missin in grub conf file;
2) I need to study a little bit more ... 8(
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