Problem with booting Gentoo

[sdousley]

As some of you who are regularly on the irc channel, you will probably know i have taken the move to install Gentoo.

I have done all the stuff in the handbook (except the grub installation) i didn't do this as i already have grub for my SuSE/WinXP dual-boot.

I mounted my SuSE /boot partition into the Gentoo install and edited menu.lst to the following:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Jan 26 01:32:40 2005


color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
timeout 10
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SuSE Linux 9.1
    kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda7 showopts
    initrd (hd0,5)/initrd

title Gentoo Linux
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdc2 video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-32@85
    boot

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows XP
    root (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
    root (fd0)
    chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe
    kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0  3
    initrd (hd0,5)/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Memory Test###
title Memory Test
    kernel (hd0,5)/memtest.bin

for the Gentoo root, i have also tried (hd0,0) (hd2,1) (hd2,0) (hd0,5)
and i get various errors, for root(hd2,1) i get a File not found error as with (hd0,5)

(hd2,0) gives Selected Disk Does Not Exist error

(hd0,0) gives Can't Mount error

I have also been trying to sort this on the irc with loft306, he was suggesting some of the partitions to try. He also mentioned to post my fdisk -l, so here it is:

Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 511 4334 30716280 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 4335 16709 99402187+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 4335 5640 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 5641 5691 409626 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5692 5822 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 5823 16708 87441763+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 640 14593 112085505 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc2 * 1 639 5132736 83 Linux
/dev/hdc5 640 3759 25061368+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc6 3760 4395 5108638+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc7 4396 7582 25599546 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc8 7583 11406 30716248+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc9 11407 14593 25599546 b W95 FAT32

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Soes anybody know what i need to do? I have gentoo on just the one partition which is /dev/hdc2 using the swap on /dev/hda7

[loft306]

title Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdc2 video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-32@85
boot

try removing the 'boot' after the kernel line
and as we talked on IRC try the other root(hd?,?)

[sdousley]

ok..... i found out that (hd1,1) worked, though i cannot now get my network to load at startup!

off to #gentoo to try and find out why!

Edit:

Sorted the network, found out that i hadn't loaded my network card module into the kernel, did that, and hey presto, i have the internet workin on gentoo. Now to install a WM on it!

[loft306]

kool! but since this is sorted please start a new thread for the next problem in the future...

[sdousley]

kool! but since this is sorted please start a new thread for the next problem in the future...

Noted will do