Gentoo installation

**daim2604** · 11-17-2011

oo..okay..i'll try it..Thanks alot..sorry for the troubles

EDIT :

Originally Posted by MikeTbob

Hmmm, If GRUB isn't on either partition, are you sure it's installed and not just left over from a previous install?

i'm sure grub already installed, because it showed up right after i reboot my pc..

here it is the one that you asked before, i've got it.
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
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**daim2604** · 11-19-2011

~BUMP~ Anyone??

**jayd512** · 11-19-2011

I could very well be mistaken here, as I haven't used GRUB legacy in quite a while.
But it seems like the important lines are commented out, meaning the system isn't reading them.
Try this one. Mount your partition from a LiveCE as you did before, but then:

Code:

vim /boot/grub/grub.conf

You should now have the file open, ready to edit.
Use your arrow keys to move down to the line starting with title Gentoo.
Use your 'delete' button to remove the hash mark (#).
Do that for the lines starting with root, kernel and initrd, as well.

Hit your 'Esc' key, and type

Code:

:wq
<Enter>

to save the file.
Reboot.

**daim2604** · 11-19-2011

Originally Posted by jayd512

I could very well be mistaken here, as I haven't used GRUB legacy in quite a while.
But it seems like the important lines are commented out, meaning the system isn't reading them.
Try this one. Mount your partition from a LiveCE as you did before, but then:

Code:

vim /boot/grub/grub.conf

You should now have the file open, ready to edit.
Use your arrow keys to move down to the line starting with title Gentoo.
Use your 'delete' button to remove the hash mark (#).
Do that for the lines starting with root, kernel and initrd, as well.

Hit your 'Esc' key, and type

Code:

:wq
<Enter>

to save the file.
Reboot.

Thanks alot for the fast reply, It Worked !!! Thanks alot!!
But now , i've got another problem

,
"Block Device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device"
"Could not find the root blocck device in."
Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same ,type "shell" for a shell, or "q" to skip..
root block device()::

hmm..How do i solve this

?

**daim2604** · 11-25-2011

~BUMP~ Anyone??

**jayd512** · 11-25-2011

Post the output of the following:

Code:

fdisk -l

Code:

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

Also, when you compiled your kernel, did you ensure that you included support for your drive type? I'm assuming SATA.

***MikeTbob*** · 11-25-2011

The problem here is that you are mounting Gentoo at /mnt/gentoo but you are issuing the command cat /boot/grub/grub.conf.
You need to actually try this, since the mount point are different.

Code:

cat /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf

**jayd512** · 11-25-2011

crud... I completely missed that!

***MikeTbob*** · 11-25-2011

I almost missed it to Jay but I have had to do this so many times before on my own Gentoo machine, I guess I assumed the OP would know this.

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