From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 02:47:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0805090247s5efaeddvcf5abb494a1b57a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509100132.54788184@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 21:17:47 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> What would cause grub to sit there and wait for me to type in the
>> stuff that's in grub.conf anyway?
>
> You probably have an error in grub.conf/menu.lst, or you have both and
> GRUB is looking at the one you don't want it to (I think menu.lst takes
> priority). GRUB isn't particularly friendly when things go wrong, I've
> had it ignore a menu.lst it didn't like.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
Dirk & Neil,
Thanks. Apparently grub wants menu.lst and the install didn't
create it. Strange. I created the link by hand and then the machine
booted fine.
I appreciate the quick answer.
Cheers,
Mark
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2008-05-09 4:17 [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub> Mark Knecht
2008-05-09 5:53 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-05-09 9:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-09 9:47 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
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