grub dual boot help.

[DieselNut]

ok, so here it goes. I am still noobish at linux, so please bear with me. I am trying to dual boot my computer. I have two seperate drives. The master drive has Gentoo loaded on it. It is 120 gigs. On my other drive I have debian. The debian drive is 20 gigs and is the slave. The problem is when I go see the grub boot screen I see both distros. I see the debian and I see the gentoo. To be exact the grub list reads as this:


Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-k7
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-k7 (single-user mode)
Other Operating system:
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 (on /dev/hda1)



So the problem I have is that the gentoo option wont load. When selected I get this:

Booting 'Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 (on /dev/hda1)'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/kernel-gnekernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=dev/ram0 init=/linuxr c ramdisk=8192 real_root=dev/sda1

Error 2: bad file or directory type

Press any key to continue...

So thats it. Like I said, Im still noobish, but I am very willing to learn linux. SO far, with debian, I love it and dont want to really ditch it for gentoo.

Other info: GNU GRUB version 0.97



SO, please help me with this, I know Im not running ubuntu, but debian is pretty close.:)

[Rocket2DMn]

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[ajmorris]

Booting 'Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 (on /dev/hda1)'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/kernel-gnekernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=dev/ram0 init=/linuxr c ramdisk=8192 real_root=dev/sda1

Error 2: bad file or directory type

Press any key to continue...So thats it. Like I said, Im still noobish, but I am very willing to learn linux. SO far, with debian, I love it and dont want to really ditch it for gentoo.


Hi there,
try changing your kernel line to:
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda1
Be careful, i changed where your kernel is pointing to, 'genkernel' that is what the gentoo gen kernel script generates, i assumed you hadnt renamed it
AJ

[DieselNut]

Hi there,
try changing your kernel line to:
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda1
Be careful, i changed where your kernel is pointing to, 'genkernel' that is what the gentoo gen kernel script generates, i assumed you hadnt renamed it
AJ
Hey, thanks for your reply. I changed the gne to gen, but still nothing. same error.:(

[ajmorris]

Hey, thanks for your reply. I changed the gne to gen, but still nothing. same error.:(

did you change the other parts i changed?
just copy the whole line i posted and replace yours with it.

BTW, upon editing your menu.lst file, it is a good idea to back it up first

AJ

[tommcd]

See post #4 from this thread to boot any distro from grub's interactive mode:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393379

[louieb]

Don't know much about Gentoo. Just wondering if you have GRUB installed inside of it? If so you can get Debian's' GRUB program to use Gentoo's GRUB configuration file like this.

title Use Gentoo GRUB configuration file
configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst

Of course you have to replace /boot/grub/menu.lst with whatever Gentoo names its GRUB configuration file.

[RaeNye]

The same bug was biting me for a few hours before I found out that grub 0.97 doesn't like newly created ext3 partitions since they have 256-byte inodes.

More info here (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6480/1/).