From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeHkg-0008SA-EA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:59:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9TKvObs023313; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:57:24 GMT Received: from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9TKtI1h010932 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:55:19 GMT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=SHMgyQOLWk5EJ76LSlrJfURJh/0xCxSdAwqSaQjdR5M3F14lD0MYKOg46ITddncf; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [209.86.224.43] (helo=elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net) by elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GeHgc-0001Lo-Dw for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:55:18 -0500 Received: from 152.50.253.2 by webmail.pas.earthlink.net with HTTP; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:55:17 -0500 Message-ID: <19056716.1162155318385.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:55:17 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Jeff Cranmer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 X-ELNK-Trace: a869a34525bd7ab11520b18a6b7f82c0239a348a220c26097e8638a368789bb023e7ef7217a51ce3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.224.43 X-Archives-Salt: 8d869174-a856-45c2-bcb6-01d6059979cc X-Archives-Hash: e281cc364f79a3f9960bc52bb58c304c Hi Richard, The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf file per your instructions was Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage_1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. I still have the same response when I try to reboot :-( Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Fish >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 > >[snip] > >> My grub.conf file is as follows: >> >> default=0 >> timeout=30 >> splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 >> root (hd0,5) >> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi >> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 > >You have a separate /boot partition, so you should reference things on >*that* partition. So your grub.conf should be: > >default=0 >timeout=30 >splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 >root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev >vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi > initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 > >> When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors. >> >> The device.map file contains the following >> (hd0) /dev/sda > >This is correct if the BIOS is setup to boot from the SATA drive >before any IDE hard disks. > >I never really liked grub-install. Try: > >cat << EOF | grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map >root (hd0,0) >setup (hd0) >EOF > >The most important line from the above is one that looks like this: > >Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p >(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded > >If you don't see this, post what you do see. > >-Richard >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list