Sam, Easiest thing would be to boot off the live cd again, chroot into your gentoo system then edit the config from there :) Samuel MacDonald wrote: > Anyone think this is a problem that can be fixed? > > It finds Grub but can't get Linux to boot. > > Sam. > > Samuel MacDonald wrote: > >> It is I fat fingered the typing of it. >> >> Sam. >> >> Larry Greenwald wrote: >> >>> Try: >>> kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22 root=/dev/hda4 vga=788 >>> Needs to be (hd0,0) not (hda0,0) >>> >>> Larry >>> >>> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 22:47, Samuel MacDonald wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I mounted boot and edited grub.conf replacing the 3 with the 4 >>>> >>>> endless restarting of the machine. >>>> >>>> The Wandering Dru wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Samuel MacDonald wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Grub has >>>>>> root (hd0,0) >>>>>> kernel (hda0,0)/kernel-2.4.22 root=/dev/hda vga=788 >>>>>> BUT, I made a mistake "root=/dev/hda3" should be root=/dev/hda4 >>>>>> >>>>>> I did "e" to edit and changed the "3" to a "4" >>>>>> I did a "b" to boot it does the same thing. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Make sure you hit "enter" after you edit the line. Otherwise it >>>>> won't take. If all else fails, boot from the install disk again, >>>>> mount the boot partition somewhere and edit the grub.conf file. >>>>> >>>>> Easy fix on this one. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list