Can't boot into Gentoo

[hiro]

Hate to beat a dead horse, but I am also having boot problems. May be something simple, may be something related to my system.

I installed Gentoo on my SCSI hard disk (/dev/sda), partitioned as follows:

/dev/sda1 - Boot (100mb)
/dev/sda4 - Extended Partition
/dev/sda5 - Swap (768mb)
/dev/sda6 - Root

When I installed grub, I did it as follows:

root (hd2,0)
* hd2 (the third hd) is my scsi disk, 0 would correspond to /dev/sda1
setup (hd2)

Then I configured my /boot/grub/menu.lst, and it looks like this:

default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd2,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=gentoo
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda6

--- cut here ---

Now mind you, on my first IDE disk, XOSL loads at boot so I can choose between Win2k, Redhat (both on first IDE disk) or Gentoo (on my SCSI disk). When I select Gentoo (which is configured in XOSL to point to my boot partition on the scsi disk) it does not boot, just a blank console.

What am I doing wrong? Should I install grub on my first IDE disk and skip xosl? Any good suggestions?

Thanks!

-hiro

[fghellar]

Sometimes it can get confused when there is a mix of ide and scsi disks... What happens if you change those (hd2,0) to (hd0,0) in your menu.lst?
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[felysium]

from the grub docs:

Note that GRUB does not distinguish IDE from SCSI - it simply counts the drive numbers from zero, regardless of their type. Normally, any IDE drive number is less than any SCSI drive number, although that is not true if you change the boot sequence by swapping IDE and SCSI drives in your BIOS.

it's the same as fghellar says..