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 1JuYeE-00056U-Sq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 19:52:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B5D4E0465; Fri, 9 May 2008 19:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C94E0465 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 19:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c48so655448wra.1 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 12:52:52 -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=PPqZFAEpnQkJvrr7wAms6MniRXJf0qgYtgCN0DlMsFQ=; b=lHBGix+mIme2lM3AYiRQQPa1GkpQ0g5OGi8V1rNJI11ZxGfabNw/F58WcOmLLfh/ECPxtTkJ32BHt2RCBT1YxCMFzUKU0GcgLyLip62CLwQcaDBgr2F5EfBg3aKgQpdZJylJuvm3gpmvwVrEGI0JDH4aQ5oD6SgNRJmlh6otZ8k= 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=UXpS/bRD8jfL6QRov2KPZSflw3biHCBfNLUBtfnEx6k0fe1owxHSB0uGgcDuyvJ6ukjEUnhy0tbhhn/nQBrb2puDCjwZOcFtnXjEIN6Yj2NrX0pNXRJF+PtoQf/0DMv5Y2mv9K+ddgJJxKeHplK/921JHN7WfGW0PdVOAf1Xxc8= Received: by 10.100.242.20 with SMTP id p20mr6336645anh.153.1210362771856; Fri, 09 May 2008 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.12.15 with HTTP; Fri, 9 May 2008 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0805091252h6bada5d2k29c6f3d9abba56@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:52:51 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works In-Reply-To: <12c639a20805091232l43b239e1o8189c3a023157d5d@mail.gmail.com> 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: <12c639a20805091232l43b239e1o8189c3a023157d5d@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ec836d6b-cfac-4b9d-baa5-04bbaf984c6f X-Archives-Hash: 6c37c24dc68825144075d604d69ae529 On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Travis Osterman wrote: > I'm performing a gentoo installation and have proceeding without > problem until I went to reboot. I am greeted with the grub prompt and > when issuing $>configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf the boot process > continues without issue. The grub-install command seemed to work > correctly, and I've been googling for some trouble-shooting ideas > without headway. > > Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. > This happened to me last night. The link menu.lst was missing. cd /boot/grub ln -s grub.conf menu.lst and a reboot will get you going. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list