[gentoo-dev] Problem!!!!!

[gentoo-dev] Problem!!!!!

[Jeff and Trilby Kirkland]

I am hoping you can help me.  I don't want to subscribe to the mailing 
list at this time.  I installed Gentoo linux  and after rebooting, found 
that the boot menu for grub came up fine, but then, when I hit return 
for the selection or it autoruns the selection, the machine reboots. 
 ***sigh***   Do you have any possible explanations for this?  I 
basically followed the steps on the web page exactly, setting it up as 
you did.

Regards,

Jeff Kirkland

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem!!!!!

[Corvus Corax]

Am Sonntag, 10. März 2002 20:04 schrieben Sie:
> I am hoping you can help me.  I don't want to subscribe to the mailing
> list at this time.  I installed Gentoo linux  and after rebooting, found
> that the boot menu for grub came up fine, but then, when I hit return
> for the selection or it autoruns the selection, the machine reboots.
>  ***sigh***   Do you have any possible explanations for this?  I
> basically followed the steps on the web page exactly, setting it up as
> you did.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff Kirkland
>
sudden reboots at boot-time are either kernel-problems or boot-manager 
problems.
maybe check your kernel-konfiguration, re-compile the kernel if necessary (by 
booting from the cd)
1st check if it the grub or its configuration and test, whether the boot-up 
works with good-old lilo. if both grub and lilo fail, its probabply a 
misconfigured kernel.

Corvus V Corax

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem!!!!!

[Ollie Rutherfurd]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:04:36PM -0500, Jeff and Trilby Kirkland wrote:
> I am hoping you can help me.  I don't want to subscribe to the mailing 
> list at this time.  I installed Gentoo linux  and after rebooting, found 
> that the boot menu for grub came up fine, but then, when I hit return 
> for the selection or it autoruns the selection, the machine reboots. 
> ***sigh***   Do you have any possible explanations for this?  I 
> basically followed the steps on the web page exactly, setting it up as 
> you did.
> 

Hi Jeff,

I had this problem when I accidently compiled a kernel for a Pentium III instead of AMD K6 (what the processor was). I didn't get any error or anything, but the machine would just reboot after I selected the entry from the grub boot menu.

Recompiling the kernel for the correct architecture solved my problem.  Maybe you've got a bad kernel?

Regards,
-Ollie Rutherfurd