problem booting kernel with options

**sdousley** · 02-21-2005

Hi, i have just installed gentoo.

I am having a problem booting the kernel, but this only occurs when any options are passed to the kernel. I have tried all sorts of combinations, but get no where.

the code in my menu/.lst file is:

Code:

title Gentoo Linux 2.6.10-r6
    root &#40;hd0,10&#41;
    kernel /bzImage

like this, the kernel boots no problems at all, but i want to add the following options to the end of the kernel line

Code:

root=/dev/hda9
vga=0x317
video=vesafb&#58;mttr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85

no matter what combination of these 3 i have in the menu.lst file it give me the following when i try to boot the kernel:

Code:

kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda9 vga=0x317 video=vesafb&#58;mttr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85

Error 17&#58; Cannot mount filesystem

anyone know what's wrong here? I have framebuffer support built into the kernel. I'm now stuck

**Giro** · 02-21-2005

Try removing this from the end ,1024x768-32@85 its the only thing i can think is stopping it??

**sdousley** · 02-21-2005

i have tried all sorts of combinations, and that doesn't work either.

as mentioned in the question, the ONLY set of options it will accept to boot is NONE what so ever.

It doesn't even like root=/dev/hda9 on it's own! :s

**drakebasher** · 02-21-2005

I hope this isn't too obvious, but you did put everything on one line, didn't you?:

Code:

title Gentoo Linux 2.6.10-r6
    root &#40;hd0,10&#41;
    kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda9 vga=0x317 video=vesafb&#58;mttr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85

And the partition references are correct?

(hd0,10) = hda11
/ partition is on hda9

**sdousley** · 02-22-2005

yes everything is on the same line.

/boot is on /dev/hda11 hence (hd0,10)
and yes, / is on /dev/hda9.

I have just (finally) edited my menu,lst file, and it even fails to boot with the following code:

Code:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.10-r6
root &#40;hd0,10&#41;
kernel /bzImage

the ONLY way it seems to like booting is from the grub command prompt. :s

**sdousley** · 02-22-2005

yes everything is on the same line.

/boot is on /dev/hda11 hence (hd0,10)
and yes, / is on /dev/hda9.

I have just (finally) edited my menu,lst file, and it even fails to boot with the following code:

Code:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.10-r6
root &#40;hd0,10&#41;
kernel /bzImage

the ONLY way it seems to like booting is from the grub command prompt. :s

**smindinvern** · 02-22-2005

try just reinstalling grub, I had something similar happened, that seemed to fix it:

Code:

grub-install /dev/hda11

**sdousley** · 02-22-2005

i didn't install grub, i just edited SuSE's grub config files. Should i boot SuSE and rewrite the MBR?

**drakebasher** · 02-22-2005

I was in agreement with smindinvern until your last post. Your system is okay, because you can boot both OSs one way or another. Your Grub is okay, because it can boot Suse with no problems. Editing the Suse Grub.conf to add Gentoo is the way I would have gone. I'm ready to conclude that it's a Gentoo problem with your Grub listing. Maybe you should post in the Gentoo forum and add a link to this thread.

**sdousley** · 02-22-2005

that's sounding like the best idea to me.... it is VERY weird that with the EXACT same command in grub command line it works yet with grub.conf it doesn't!

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