Hello, I found a typo in the grub installation handbook, I followed the directions, and made the necessary changes for my system, but there was something wrong in the grub file, and in the grub documenation, it has root (hd0,0) in the example, I went with root (hd1,0), but you cannot have a space in root(hd0,0), it gave me error 17 or 13, can't remember which, after I removed the space and it's now reading root(hd1,0), it's now working. Thought I would let the developers know this, here's the link to the grub section: In code listing 2.3: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2 Thanks !! =). Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Grub loading Expected Results: root(hd0,0) in the grub handbook example.
nope. "root (hdX,Y)" is the correct format. your error was something else. here's my working grub.conf: *** default 0 timeout 6 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-ck root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 console=tty1 quiet splash *** your issue was likely that you tried to boot the wrong hard drive number. in which case it's a support issue that belongs on forums.gentoo.org.
