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 1GeGrM-0004om-SW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:02:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9TJvVLc027552; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:57:31 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 k9TJrZcU030019 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:53:35 GMT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=P5emxZ/bySMfZV5g5mkuH7eIML1LZc5krdL77UfvZQN/8X1NRabLs3+4d+qjQsx6; 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 1GeGis-0004o6-KB for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:53:34 -0500 Received: from 152.50.253.2 by webmail.pas.earthlink.net with HTTP; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:53:34 -0500 Message-ID: <5422293.1162151614580.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:53:34 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Jeff Cranmer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 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: a869a34525bd7ab11520b18a6b7f82c0239a348a220c2609c23c39d31e931c353686134a0b45f45693caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.224.43 X-Archives-Salt: 43379351-c603-48e5-b981-758c1f7bb731 X-Archives-Hash: bfdea37e444f7b6d2b95e69bc96803f7 I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor. I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4, and maps within Linux to /dev/sda. I also have two other parallel IDE dard drives, connected via a raid controller (though not configured for RAID) to Drive numbers 0 and 3 on the RAID controller. These drives map to hde and hdh respectively, with a DVD writer mapping to both /dev/hda and /dev/dvdrw. The bios is configured to boot first from the DVD (primary IDE master) then from the 250GB SATA hard drive. swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 I am running genkernel After I configure grub, and install grub to the mbr using grub-install, the reboot fails, with GRUB doing nothing but display the text 'GRUB'. Evidently, either I am doing something wrong at the grub-install stage, or there is a problem with grub. I have had a similar lack of success with Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva installs (same problem). The boot partition is an ext3 filesystem 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 When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors. The device.map file contains the following (hd0) /dev/sda This file was generated by the fedora installation (possibly the source of the problem?). 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. Any suggestions gratefully received, as I'm trying to get this system working by the end of the weekend. Thanks in advance Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list