From: Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@earthlink.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:46:53 -0500 (GMT-05:00) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16285230.1162208813731.JavaMail.root@elwamui-mouette.atl.sa.earthlink.net> (raw)
I think I have something more basic (i.e. hardware-related) than that. I've tried installs of Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva Linux with the same result, and both Lilo and Grub fail. I'm going to take out the raid card tonight and step down to a single drive and see if I can get around the issue that way.
There were no custom CFLAGS in use, and I built it from the stage3 tarball. Unfortunately, I've already wiped that particular attempt during last night's diagnosis process, so I can't do the checks you suggest.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
>Sent: Oct 29, 2006 10:48 PM
>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
>
>On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen, repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text.
>
>Hmm, "GRUB" isn't very informative. That particular string should
>only be printed once when the stage1 loader (the part that is
>installed in your MBR) executes. If this is appearing multiple times,
>my best guess is that your stage1 file in /boot/grub/ is corrupt, or
>was somehow built incorrectly. You don't have "custom-cflags" in USE,
>do you?
>
>What does "equery check grub" and "md5sum /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1
>/boot/grub/stage1" report?
>
>-Richard
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2006-10-30 2:14 ` David Relson
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2006-10-30 0:49 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-30 1:06 ` Joe Menola
2006-10-30 3:48 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-29 21:02 Jeff Cranmer
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