From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuYbi-0004uN-97 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 19:50:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9551E03B2; Fri, 9 May 2008 19:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE943E03B2 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 19:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JuYbf-0004DV-AK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 21:50:15 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Fri, 09 May 2008 21:50:11 +0200 id 00010005.4824AAF3.00001045 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:50:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <12c639a20805091232l43b239e1o8189c3a023157d5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12c639a20805091232l43b239e1o8189c3a023157d5d@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805092150.09454.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 38d7a1bb-4dc0-429e-abe5-73978072b872 X-Archives-Hash: f1393dd9e82c9763e86938448ade2823 Travis Osterman writes: > I'm performing a gentoo installation and have proceeding without > problem until I went to reboot. I am greeted with the grub prompt and > when issuing $>configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf the boot process > continues without issue. The grub-install command seemed to work > correctly, and I've been googling for some trouble-shooting ideas > without headway. Check for /boot/grub/menu.lst, this is an alternate (and maybe empty) config file which grub seems to prefer over grub.conf. I'd make it a symlink to grub.conf. Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list