public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:48:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610291348.37497.menola@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24022346.1162149738311.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Update.
>
> After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck
> /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped
> to hd2
>
> The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now
> (fd0)   /dev/fd0
> (hd0)  /dev/hde
> (hd1)  /dev/hdh
> (hd2)  /dev/sda
>
> I edited the grub.conf file so that the splash image and root lines
> reference (hd2,5), then re-ran grub-install /dev/sda.  Still no joy.  On
> boot up, the screen stays blank for a while, then every 10 seconds or so,
> it adds another " GRUB" text element to the screen.  No sign of any boot-up
> activity.

Try running grub, then at the grub command line:
>root (hd2,5)
>setup /dev/sda
>quit

-jm

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-29 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-29 19:22 [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-29 19:48 ` Joe Menola [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-29 19:53 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-29 19:56 Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-29 20:11 ` Joe Menola
2006-10-31 17:13   ` Mick
     [not found] <6886922.1162153151682.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
2006-10-29 23:23 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-31 17:41 Jeff Cranmer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200610291348.37497.menola@sbcglobal.net \
    --to=menola@sbcglobal.net \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox