Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:40:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > >> >> Why is root=/dev/ram0 real_root= in the sample/prototype? >> >> > That's for using an initrd, specifically the one produced by >> > genkernel. With no initrd you simply give the ac

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:40:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > Didn't we cover this already? You have GRUB installed to boot your > > other distros, all you need to do is add a stanza for Gentoo to your > > existing menu.lst. > > Subject only got touched. That's all I *need* to do. :-) Yes :) > M

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-07 08:56 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:34:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I got ahead of things I suppose on the bootloader instructions, which >> include no example for Grub 0.97. I did emerge -s grub to identify the >> package name, then did 'emerge --as

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:34:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I got ahead of things I suppose on the bootloader instructions, which > include no example for Grub 0.97. I did emerge -s grub to identify the > package name, then did 'emerge --ask sys-boot/grub-static' without > first looking for any instr

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-06 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Thursday, August 06, 2015 11:34:56 PM Felix Miata wrote: > If I followed the kernel instructions page correctly, its E8400 Core2Duo > wasn't in need of an initrd, and so did not get one. Main deviation from > suggestions/defaults was enabling HPFS filesystems. Result was 6001056 byte > 4.0.5. op