cscscscscs cscscscscs (?) writes: > I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 > days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, > installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module > errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memory and other tests: everything > is OK with my computer. However, the install succeeded only for the sixth > time.
Were the errors reproducible? I a compile aborts, try again, if the error is different or there is no error at all, this ususally means a hardware problem. If you get the very same error, it's likely a software problem. > 'Now' the main problem is that GRUB returns with error code 15. I've read > the documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml ; > however it didn't help. The kernel image is where it must be. Do you know that grub gives you an intractive command prompt with tab completion? When the grub menu appears, press the 'e' key, this lets you edit the current menu entry. Put the cursor behind the 'kernel' entry, and press the tab key. Grub will show you all files found on that partition. So you can check if grub gets the partitions wrong. You can also start with 'kernel (hd' and press tab, this will list all available partitions first. Do you see the splash image? > I have got two HDD-s with SATA interface. My system is installed on sdb. > Here are my partitions, beginning from the 0. cylinder: > > First: sdb5 ext2 /boot > Second: sdb6 ext3 / > Third: sdb7 ext3 /home > Fourth: sdb2 swap > > As other Linux distributions boots fine from logical partitions I think > this shouldn't be the reason. No, that's no problem. > (After sdb2 there are 2 more primary data partition (with no influence to > the system)). > > I think GRUB is in the MBR of sdb. (One thing is 100%: the MBR of sda > remains untouched, however the installer hasn't asked where to install > it.) I install grub this way from a command line prompt: grub root (hd1,0) # 1st partition of 2nd drive for /grub directory setup (hd1) # MBR of 2nd drive quit > grub.conf: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title=Gentoo Linux > root (hd1,4) Now this looks wrong to me. I think grub just numbers the partitions counting from zero, so I would expect /boot to be (hd1,0), even if it is hdb5. But if you can see the splash image, I am wrong. Still, I would play around with tab completion so check if the files are really accessible. > kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sdb6 doscsi > initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 > > > Everything looks to be good, but I have no idea what does > root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 > mean and why appears 'ramdisk'. I don't know much about initrd and stuff. I found it easier to just a plain kernel without initrd, but I never used genkernel. > Reading through many pages about Gentoo linux, and it's "power", > "freedom", "choices", package management ...etc. this distribution looks > like very fine. I think so, too :) > I'm now totally depressed.... The last thing for the rest is reading the > 100 pages documentation of GRUB. It's very complicated for as an > 'beginning difficult'. Right, it's okay to ask here, expecially if you installed for several times already. Hope you get it to work soon. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
