Gentoo Install - make.conf

Code: 
/dev/hda1           /boot       ext2	 noauto,noatime	 0 0
/dev/hda3           /           ext3	 noatime         0 2
/dev/hda2           none        swap	 sw              0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660	 noauto,ro       0 0
proc                /proc       proc	 defaults        0 0

Ok :confused:
No menu.lst :confused:
Done something very wrong!!!

Sorry for my n00bie-ness!
 
I think it's subtlely different in gentoo. I don't have a grub.conf :) The menu.lst like Nozzer said is located in /boot/grub/ ... if you find /boot empty when you just checked it may be that you have forgot to mount it.
Code: 
mount /boot
 
The version of grub that gentoo uses now does use a grub.conf. You allso have to leave out the boot.Try just
kernel /bzimage root=/dev/hda3
 
I've used RH and it was a symlink between grub.conf and menu.lst. I thought that it would be kept "purer" in Gentoo :p

There are a lot of changes in this new setup and system are there not? I havent used 1.4 yet :p

Shak
 
Thats the one, is the bzImage located at /boot/bzImage?

Is there meant to be a = between the kernel and its location...I dont think there is, but try it.

Also, check the RAM, my machine with 2MB RAM freaks when booting because of the mem used to boot :p

Shak
 
You missed out root=(hd0,0) so it should look like this:
Code: 
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux
root=(hd0,0) 
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
 
Originally posted by Shak

There are a lot of changes in this new setup and system are there not? I havent used 1.4 yet :p

Shak
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Eh! not that i've noticed, but then again I still use the 1.2 boot cd (which the install has change drastically in the livecd) and where you need to untar the stage I just untar the newer tar.bz2 which I burnt onto another cd :) apart from that I do everything identical to the old 1.2 method.

edit: it seem my grub stuff is of the old version too :p
 
Originally posted by Shak
I was mainly referring to the setup.

There is now "pci-setup" and "net-setup" etc. Seems slightly odd and new to me :p

Also subtle changes such as the grub.conf one :p

Shak
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Yeah that what I mean, I don't do any of that. You know the 1.2 cd does a modprobe for you automatically.
 
I think I'm gonna have to admit defeat and start again! :o

Pay a little bit attention to detail next time. Make sure everything is right.

Thanks Guys

[RB]

/edit Forgot to say:

hda1 = Boot (ext2)
hda2 = Swap
hda3 = Root (ext2)

if that's any help
 
Yeah the PCI autodetect, but then when men were men and people configged their own network cards you didnt have any of these posh scripts, pah! What is the world coming to?

"Those were the days, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers" - Linus Torvalds

Shak
 
Originally posted by [RB]
I think I'm gonna have to admit defeat and start again! :o

Pay a little bit attention to detail next time. Make sure everything is right.

Thanks Guys

[RB]

/edit Forgot to say:

hda1 = Boot (ext2)
hda2 = Swap
hda3 = Root (ext2)

if that's any help
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It may be a problem with the bzImage, I had to do the Gentoo install thrice before I got a decent install :)

GL

Shak
 
Originally posted by [RB]
I think I'm gonna have to admit defeat and start again! :o

Pay a little bit attention to detail next time. Make sure everything is right.

Thanks Guys

[RB]

/edit Forgot to say:

hda1 = Boot (ext2)
hda2 = Swap
hda3 = Root (ext2)

if that's any help
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Keep at it mate, don't let it defeat you yet. Your like there, all it is, is getting it to boot. Is bzImage in /boot?

Originally posted by Shak

"Those were the days, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers" - Linus Torvalds

Shak
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Write my own device drivers ... ergh! I think I'll rather be the dog ... lol even a penguin! :D
 
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