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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HzzMa-0002GV-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:20:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5HIIJOS019264; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:18:19 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5HIBsTP011848 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:11:55 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so1845644wah for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:11:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Epi/szy9e3nioIBoOMd/Rdp6mTf8YeqX5ZU9vPDg0pVe7/MSeo5osoCaBlTle/lJA5x1TE3p3TdoY8dETHeWjd2IsWAg2fOvTG9RhhQlhT02csPVsVpu4HRUvOvxWdMWFQKIpnUPAZWe/n+oUq2FKIYpBEbXG+Z8huJyLQWS35Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NVDAgT1U0i6BjdkWyJT2uGxewzV5oeOPa82NzuQwSYbmEPB4sMbtKFBW+Mn/EjWLcxSyRpEaY+l7B7uxuqMYh5GoKPtZDvsTajgHGXrHlq9k3la4traSag5WfmJhhyQa8HBWlGmn+sTNM9We++3BT4HqMO//BEXG/UuLrt0LgP0= Received: by 10.115.77.1 with SMTP id e1mr5339025wal.1182103913882; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.77.12 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0706171111v65eb7094y7381b7e7a5981df2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:11:53 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot questions In-Reply-To: <200706171852.22352.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0706170949p4971b60n2ce21dee953dc799@mail.gmail.com> <200706171852.22352.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7fbdfe39-802d-4b36-8b24-ff209e2989d0 X-Archives-Hash: efb03f977426edfac085d2698f8d4299 On 6/17/07, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2007 17:49, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > The first problem I ran into on this machine was that immediately > > after finds my kernel and starts booting I get maybe 1 or 2 lines that > > are good but then the screen becomes unreadable. The text characters > > are highly garbled and there are columns of dots all over the screen. > > The card is an NVidia NV18 GeForce4 MX 400. > > That sounds like a framebuffer issue. Are you passing the correct options to > your framebuffer on the boot line? Actually I don't believe I enabled frame buffer or didn't mean to. I'll take a look at that. With the install CD I have to boot with gentoo-nofb to even try to do the install. The frame buffer boot just goes to a black graphics screen and then I never see anything. This set of problems didn't exist on older Gentoo install disks, circa 2005. I used to have Linux on this box and had no problems with the install. The newer install disks are causing the headaches. > > > The second problem is that after the boot gets started I get a > > kernel panic. > > This is probably a badly configured kernel/hardware driver issue. Agreed. I think the kernel panic is saying it cannot find the drive but the text is so mangled I cannot read it to make any adjustments. > > > > grub> root (hd0,6) > > If you have your /boot on /dev/hde5, then you should point grub's root to > (hd0,4). Ah...root (hd0,4) points to /boot, not /root. OK, thanks. > > The fact that your hard drive is shown as /dev/hde as opposed to /dev/hda > makes me think that the hd0 part may also not be correct. > Check /boot/grub/device.map to see what's pointing where and also use tab > completion when you run grub from the command line to find out what grub is > seeing first in terms of hard disks. > > > grub> setup (hd0) > > This is fine only if hd0 is /dev/hde. The machine is an Asus MB with multiple hard drive controllers. hda-hdd are the controllers built into the chipset. hde-hdh are supposed to be the secondary external HD controller. I do remember a Fedora kernel years ago switching these controllers around at times however the Gentoo install CD mounts the existing partitions using commands like mount /dev/hde7 /mnt/gentoo/ mount /dev/hde5 /mnt/gentoo/boot etc., so at least under that kernel they are definately /dev/hde. I want to get this boot screen readability problem solved first so I can really see what the problem is befor I make any major changes. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list