Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 April 2008, darren kirby wrote: > > Well, I had to put a lot more parameters for it to work -- I am not > > using grub but my parameters aside from the ro are > > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2 udev > > and some more specific to me.  I am using something close to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the John covici: > on Thursday 04/24/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from > > > grub command line. > > > > > > root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread John covici
on Thursday 04/24/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from > > grub command line. > > > > root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) > > > > kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from > grub command line. > > root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) > > kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 Nope. Kernel needs a root= parameter. It can't know what is your

[gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread reader
Just when I began to think I knew a thing or two about grub I'm finding I am failing to get a working grub.conf going on a new install. True, the install is inside a vmware machine on windows vista but that has not presented a problem in previous versions of windows and it does not appear to be h