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dsilvia at mchsi

Sep 9, 2004, 6:04 PM

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gentoo not bootable

Okay, brand newbie here. I've used Norton Partition Magic to establish a
Linux partition and swap and installed a stage* tarball (i86 and athlon
xp). I've set up Boot Magic to boot 'Gentoo Linux', but nothing happens, it
just sits there!:-< I thought perhaps because I do not have a separate boot
partition for Linux, that might be the problem. However, with WindowsXP,
Boot Magic, Linux, and Linux swap, I've used up the 4 partitions for
/dev/hda. I'm sure extended must enter into this somewhere, but I'm not
sure how. In short, I'm stuck. Would some kind soul out there author a
brief tutorial? Key elements are:

WindowsXP-Pro
Norton Partition Magic/Boot Magic
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.01 GHz
1.00 GB ram

TIA,
Dave S.

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wardred at oddsoft

Sep 9, 2004, 10:05 PM

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Re: gentoo not bootable [In reply to]

I'm not familiar with Partition Magic; however, I do have a setup similiar to
yours. I used fdisk.

HDA1 - NTFS - Bootable
HDA2 - Linux(boot partition) - Bootable
HDA3 - Linus swap
HDA4 - Linux(root partition)

I used grub for my bootloader, and if you'd like I can post my fstab and the
steps to get grub to dual boot - though I remember the Gentoo Install docs
being a fairly good resource for this. You might try reading through the
grub and fdisk portions of the docs to see if your answer is there.

I didn't need to use extended partitions, though if I'd used more Linux
partitions, I would've had to. (There are arguments for and against this.
For my simple workstation install, I just wanted to keep it relatively
simple...)

On Thursday 09 September 2004 09:04 pm, Dave Silvia wrote:
> Okay, brand newbie here. I've used Norton Partition Magic to establish a
> Linux partition and swap and installed a stage* tarball (i86 and athlon
> xp). I've set up Boot Magic to boot 'Gentoo Linux', but nothing happens,
> it just sits there!:-< I thought perhaps because I do not have a separate
> boot partition for Linux, that might be the problem. However, with
> WindowsXP, Boot Magic, Linux, and Linux swap, I've used up the 4 partitions
> for /dev/hda. I'm sure extended must enter into this somewhere, but I'm
> not sure how. In short, I'm stuck. Would some kind soul out there author
> a brief tutorial? Key elements are:
>
> WindowsXP-Pro
> Norton Partition Magic/Boot Magic
> AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.01 GHz
> 1.00 GB ram
>
> TIA,
> Dave S.
>
>
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heikowu at ceosg

Sep 9, 2004, 10:16 PM

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Re: gentoo not bootable [In reply to]

Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 03:04 schrieb Dave Silvia:
> I've used Norton Partition Magic to establish a
> Linux partition and swap and installed a stage* tarball (i86 and athlon
> xp).

Seems like you just installed the stage tarball. This is not all that there is
to a Gentoo installation, and I can only recommend that you follow the steps
that are outlined in the installation guide on www.gentoo.org.

(need to at least install a kernel in addition to a stage 3 tarball)

As I see that you have an AMD-64, I'd probably bootstrap the system from stage
1, so that you get maximum performance from your processor, as there are no
stage tarballs for IA-64 yet, AFAIK.

Anyway, read the documentation that's already there (nobody has to write up
anything), and then ask again (I didn't want to say RTFM, but it basically
boils down to this).

Heiko.

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