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- Jul 28, 2002
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- Boise Idaho
Good morning, I'm tring to setup gentoo with grub for a boot loader. I haven't dealt with grub before and I must say I'm rather flustered by it. I have followed the gentoo install guide to the letter aside from changing partition numbers as mine are different. I get the following error when I try to install.
Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a valid boot device.
The command I run to install grub is as follows
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
I have also tried
grub-install /dev/hda
which returns the same error. My grub.conf file looks like this
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=gentoo
root (hd1,1)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hdb2 vga=788
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Does anyone see anything wrong here? Here is my partition layout as well
/dev/hda1=windows
/dev/hdb1=swap
/dev/hdb2=/
/dev/hdb3=empty
Edit:On a side note is it possible to force portage to emerge lilo instead? Everytime I try to emerge it it tells me it's masked.
Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a valid boot device.
The command I run to install grub is as follows
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
I have also tried
grub-install /dev/hda
which returns the same error. My grub.conf file looks like this
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=gentoo
root (hd1,1)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hdb2 vga=788
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Does anyone see anything wrong here? Here is my partition layout as well
/dev/hda1=windows
/dev/hdb1=swap
/dev/hdb2=/
/dev/hdb3=empty
Edit:On a side note is it possible to force portage to emerge lilo instead? Everytime I try to emerge it it tells me it's masked.
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