Gentoo Linux

[Lucas Peet]

Well, I went out on a limb...I had GRUB configured to (hopefully) multiboot
to my Win2K drive, as well as Gentoo.

CDROM is hda
Win2K is hdb (hd0)
Gentoo is hdc (hd1)

I was trying to install GRUB to (hd1) and told my bios to boot to D first.
Instead, I installed GRUB onto (hd0).  SUCCESS!  And I can dual boot from
the GRUB menu to either Gentoo OR Win2K.  Nice!  Don't know what was wrong
with the other configuration though...As it turns out, Gentoo locked while
loading the kernel at parport0 IRQ7, though I think this is because I
enabled IEEE1294 communications (2 way to/from the printer) and I guess my
cable isn't compatible with that.  I'm pretty sure the printer is though -
HP Laserjet 6MP.  Guess I get to recompile the kernel again...

-Lucas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at attaway.net>
To: "Lucas Peet" <lpeet at eccod.com>
Cc: "Kansas City Linux Users Group" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:45 AM
Subject: RE: Gentoo Linux

> I had a grub problem where I had compiled and installed everything from a
> faster computer to be booted on an older processor.  I would find out grub
> compiled for Pentium III code would not work on the orignial Pentium.
>
> Another case like this I had was never bothering to power down the
> computer after changing head/track/sector counts and rebooting.  I guess
> the bios only checks this during a cold boot, not during a warm boot.
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:
>
> > It's a 6GB drive partitioned as so:
> >
> > hdc1 - /boot - 300Mb
> > hdc2 - swap  - 384Mb
> > hdc3 - /     - Rest of drive
>
>