Now that I think about it though, it really is pretty obvious "pre-" being before... silly me...
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Actually append does mean to add it to the end. We should actually be telling users to prepend [SOLVED]
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I think that the problem you are now having is not even remotely related to the original topic, so please start a new thread if you don't figure this out. (Black screen can be a KMS issue with intel cards)
]]>Now oddly enough it went to login after like 10 tries while I was trying to read errors before it went blank. Don't know why it worked this time I changed nothing but the same errors were on the screen
Now I rebooted and blank screen again. No login.
Anyone have a guess as to the issue. Its hard for me to give all the lines as its trying to boot. They are only on the screen for a couple seconds
]]>As for the boot loader, I don't use grub, but I suspect the kernel and initrd will need to be on the same partition as the bootloader. If they aren't, you may have to chainload. However, others will probably know better than me about this.
]]>One last question. Since this is a diy distro will my swap be detected by the /etc/fstab automatically? as I noticed no step to point towards what partition to use for swap in the guide.
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