eldados Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Hello there I have gentoo on my machine and just installed mandrake 10 with grub. the problem is I can't configure grub to start my gentoo. the gentoo kernel and initrd are in /dev/hda1 which is my boot partition. gentoo root is hda3 and mandrake root is hda4. what can I do thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 (edited) if it's that you need to know the exact names in gentoo's /boot then add gentoo to fstab mkdir your mountpoint for gentoo and mount it. If you do not have a grub.conf it's becasue it's just a useless symlink to menu.lst that ml is wisely bypassing. Edit that for adding gentoo. If you need more help, let us know!....and welcome to the board! Edited March 13, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldados Posted March 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 thanks root I mounted hda1 as /mnt/bootg in grub under "Image" I put /bootg/2.6.3-gentoo-r1 same for initrd but I get an error trying to load ..."press any key to continue" I wonder what the right entry would be. I have to say that I got used to edit grub from the line (grub.conf) :-) thanks in advance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldados Posted March 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 I mean BVC :P any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 (edited) thanks rootI mounted hda1 as /mnt/bootg in grub under "Image" I put /bootg/2.6.3-gentoo-r1 same for initrd but I get an error trying to load ..."press any key to continue" I wonder what the right entry would be. I have to say that I got used to edit grub from the line (grub.conf) :-) thanks in advance... grub doesn't need to know ml's mountpoint. It needs gentoo's, so change /bootg/2.6.3-gentoo-r1 to /boot/2.6.3-gentoo-r1 and also for initrd. I attatched suse9's menu.list. BTW, you still edit grub from the cli and in fact are editing the same file whether gentoo, mandrake, debian, slack....doesn't matter, grubs config is menu.lst in all distros/os's because it's grub. Not all use the grub.conf symlink though. Edited March 13, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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