Gentoo Won'd Boot

[angelkiller]

Ok, so after seeing the thread about how great Gentoo is, I decided to try it. So I installed it per . Everything went well.

However, after installing Gentoo and before I actually booted, I did some heavy customization to my Grub configuration and the way my computer is partitioned.

As a result, the Grub settings that Gentoo made to boot are not relevent anymore because my partitions have changed and my Grub config has also changed.

So now, I have a partition with Gentoo installed, but no way to boot it. I need an entry for Grub so I can boot Gentoo. I know that you need some info about my partition setup on my machine, but I don't know the command that will output this data. (I'll post the output if you give me the command)

Any help would be awesome!




Edit: Dammit. I misspelled the title.

 

[Solaris17]

do you remember what you did to grub? IDK im mad rusty with gentoo...but you could try booting from a laive CD and looking at were the gentoo FS is mounted....that should be teh path you need to edit into grub for the mount point.

 

[angelkiller]

Oh, Grub is working. I have Ubuntu installed on this machine right now and Grub + Ubuntu are both fully functional. I'm trying to add a Gentoo entry to Grub, so I can dual boot. Everything is already installed & ready to go. I just can't boot.

The Gentoo partition is partition 'dev/sda7'. Here's the entry that Gentoo automatically created upon installation, but does not work. I get a 'No such partition' error.

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda8 
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5

I don't even understand half of the options. Don't I need more info than just the partition?

 

[Solaris17]

Try changing this

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="5"][B]7[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] 
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5

 

[Solaris17]

so did it work or not?

 

[angelkiller]

Whoops, forgot about this.

I tried it and it didn't work.

 

[Easy Rhino]

does gentoo have a rescue cd or something that you could stick in there and fix the partition problem?

 

[angelkiller]

Not that I know of. I've never used Gentoo before.


I was hoping someone that knows alot about Grub could just give me some code to boot the partition. I think the issue is more Grub related than Gentoo related.

 

[Easy Rhino]

Not that I know of. I've never used Gentoo before.


I was hoping someone that knows alot about Grub could just give me some code to boot the partition. I think the issue is more Grub related than Gentoo related.

well you can either fix grub to match the partition or fix the partition to match grub.

 

[angelkiller]

Ok. But I don't know what isn't matching.