On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:

> But, now that you mention it, something in /dev was wrong
> because the first time I booted Gentoo off hda2, the "issue"
> message that's displayed before the login prompt gave
> instructions on how to fix /dev.  I never figured out what
> exactly was wrong, but following the instructions fixed it.
>
> It took me a while to get to that point since I tripped over
> the grub bug that displays a blank menu and then corrupts the
> console. Apparently there's something wrong with the
> splash.xpm.gz file, and you have to comment out the splashcreen
> line in menu.lst.

The path of the splash.xpm.gz has to be correct or you'll get problems booting 
up.
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Regards,
Mick