gentoo linux

[MBSmith at dstsystems.com]

The grub examples from the gentoo docs show the kernel command as:  kernel 
/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3

The above example assumes the root system is on /dev/hda3, obviously.  Did 
you lay out your file systems like gentoo's exmples, ie. hda1=boot, 
hda2=swap, hda3=root (not that you have to, I'm just trying to understand 
your install)?  I wonder if your kernel command below is looking for 
bzImage in the root of (HD0,0) - is this where your kernel is?

I'm no grub expert, but I just followed the gentoo docs and it worked 
first time, and maybe I got lucky.  Also, re the 'Read Only Filesystem' 
errors, I assume you got the appropriate fs modules (reiserfs, ext3...) 
built into the kernel OK?

Cheers
Mark Smith

"Chris Midkiff" <chris at datacaptech.com>
Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
01/30/2002 11:45 AM

 
        To:     <kclug at kclug.org>
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: gentoo linux

I installed gentoo last night.  All went well, through configuring grub 
(I'd
be fine if they offered lilo... New tools, same job).  Anyway, when I
re-booted the system, it came up in grub command mode.  I did a little
reading, and got the following to load my kernel:
# kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage
# boot

The kernel will boot, but refuse to log me on. Gives several 'Read Only
Filesystem' errors while booting, then when I enter a username, returns 
the
message:
/bin/login: Error while loading shared libraries: libshadow.so.o: Cannot
open shared object file: no such file or directory.

If I <ctl><alt><del> at this point, the system will (eventually) prompt me
for single user (administrative) mode, and let me login with root 
password.
The df output shows all partitions mounted, and the mount output shows two
entries for /proc, neither one mounted, and everything else mounted rw.

To shorten the question, does anyone have enough experience with grub to
help me out?

Chris Midkiff