Heres a rundown of my boot config (if it helps.)
Code:
login as: root
[email][email protected][/email]'s password:
Last login: Sun Mar 7 14:11:04 2004 from 192.168.1.1
[color=red]mediaserv root #[/color] mount /dev/hda1 /boot
[color=red]mediaserv root #[/color] cd /boot
[color=red]mediaserv boot #[/color] ls
System.map-2.4.25 bzImage grub lost+found
boot bzImage.orig kernel-2.4.25 oldbzImage
[color=red]mediaserv boot #[/color] cd grub
[color=red]mediaserv grub #[/color] ls
e2fs_stage1_5 grub.conf.sample reiserfs_stage1_5 vstafs_stage1_5
fat_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 splash.xpm.gz xfs_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5 menu.lst stage1
grub.conf minix_stage1_5 stage2
[color=red]mediaserv grub #[/color] cat grub.conf
default 0
timeout 2
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.25 root=/dev/hda3
title=Failsafe Gentoo Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/oldbzImage root=/dev/hda3
[color=red]mediaserv grub #[/color] cd ~
[color=red]mediaserv root #[/color] umount /boot
[color=red]mediaserv root #[/color] cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.13 2003/07/17 19:55:18 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
[color=red]mediaserv root #[/color] exit
logout
Note that in order to use ext3, you have to enable journaling support in your kernel. I even have very generic (rare) hardware on this system, yet everything that I use works with gentoo.
Also, FWIW, this server used to run windows at one point, and ever since switching it to linux, its become so much easier to maintain, file transfers are so much faster, I can execute any process remotely, and I can perform remote administration or download files from the server securely from literally any PC that is connected to the internet. Plus I no longer have a mouse, keyboard, and monitor plugged into it, as they are completely unnecessary.
