Post-Installation Errors Gentoo (2004.1)
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 and I installed Gentoo (2004.1) onto a firewire HDD. For the kernel (gentoo-kernel 2.4.25), I used genkernel. I got GRUB installed and working, but when I boot into gentoo i got the following error:
Code:
/bin/sh: Can't open dofirewire Code:
root (hd0,2) Code:
BusyBox v1.00-pre7 (2004.05.16-17:48+0000) Built-in shell (ash) Code:
. : alias bg break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export false :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: |
2.4.25 requires a ramdisk that is larger than 4096 at boot, setting it in grub.conf to 8192 (ramdisk_size=8192) fixed the problem for me.
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ramdisk_size?
Hi MerePeer,
Excuse me if I sound ignorant, I am a true Linux newbie (plus it's a Monday). I have Suse w/ 2.6.4-52 and Redhat w/ 2.4.20-8 on two different disks in my system. Using SuSe menu.lst at boot. Booting SuSe is fine. Booting Redhat with SuSe "loader" (green w/ SuSe logo in upper right corner) seems to work. But when I boot Redhat w/ the Redhat "loader" (black background w/ Penguin at top), I get en error message. I'm getting the same message as wolverineman85: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: 01:00: rw=0, want=4258, limit=4096 as soon as boot starts. Sounds like the ramdisk size problem you descibe. Could you give me the location of the file (/boot/grub/grub.conf on Redhat or /etc/grub.conf on SuSe) and the exact location within the file to put the ramdisk_size variable you mention for my situation? Thanks! |
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