Bug 34309

Summary:	The setting of device addresses in grub.conf is in error in the installation guide
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Scott Gant <rathma62>
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Scott Gant 2003-11-24 17:55:09 UTC

The install documentation states that to set up grub.conf to boot your new kernel you must type:

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3

when in fact the '/boot' part of the address is not correct and grub will not find this. The correct code should be:

root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3

The same thing happens with initrd:

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV

should be:

initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-KV

Without the true addresses, a new user of Gentoo will not be able to boot their new installation.

Comment 1 Erwin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-24 20:25:51 UTC

Normally, you will have a symbolic link called "boot" inside /boot which points to .
So, GRUB will still be able to find your kernel image.
Also, there's a note below code listing 23.4 that tells users to change their kernel image's path if they have separate /boot and / partition. :-)

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-24 21:35:37 UTC

I can only agree with Erwin. The baselayout package should take care of the symlink so that users with a seperate /boot partition still have a /boot/boot -> /boot.

I'm marking this one as INVALID