Gilberto Martins wrote: >>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
You're pointing the kernel to hdb1 as the system root partition. I bet money hdb1 isn't; it's /boot. So point it to the hdb[2|3|4|...] which is your main / partition, and all will be well. Maarten > 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( > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
