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 1JuPC9-0006Es-3K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFEAFE00A4; Fri, 9 May 2008 09:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7C7E00A4 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 09:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c28so263413ana.47 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 02:47:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=obiuuOGlVnVhohANtwDa3dA1MAB88MtqBvscfdYrp7E=; b=pRA0DMLoL0v3Uv5Xse97qgm4Wb46NDhXuRQcIVkSTq/RTTEE5Xy0USOoaAt1vCDcgktjNPLIzLDtURXS+Z5oXmlChJkJ6AZiSnsM9ahD2zs5IuV/93SeGP2tnSZQ/8P6qfTTiGTKD/8UXx7iIl17XBuo+YYXW/lOM+WRQ9YEPRo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ajrQnrBntdz//NGueW1XELbvp7LrdKsW+MXhI/4op+WGa8G6NHX8N2SvFIRIIFffXB8KB4LO95XqDOYnuFGWaSc8L2gHKZ0TiIksKlkyrD6EPTb8w5PkZjV4mcqS7rEImYoQiF3vrCcNHa9n1cX/9/W1qS5esluqAQa20Q4Ytps= Received: by 10.100.121.12 with SMTP id t12mr5400932anc.154.1210326434285; Fri, 09 May 2008 02:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.12.15 with HTTP; Fri, 9 May 2008 02:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0805090247s5efaeddvcf5abb494a1b57a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 02:47:14 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub> In-Reply-To: <20080509100132.54788184@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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 References: <5bdc1c8b0805082117k7fe62234j64c77a9023891920@mail.gmail.com> <20080509100132.54788184@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 42da8992-9c64-4a9b-b638-5132909c242b X-Archives-Hash: 22c085f48d1249013917b30c0fc81754 On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list