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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:01:42 +0100
From: "Marco Schuler" <listworks@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing GRUB
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Hi,
On 2/26/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after using other distributions for years I finally decided to go
> > with gentto to have to most flexibility. So here I am :-)
> >
> > I got trough the gentoo installation up to the point of installing
> > grub. After the command 'grub-install /dev/hda' my machine hangs
> > displaying the following meassage:
> > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time
>
>
> You are installing grub to an IDE device. Is that how you normally
> address that device? It might be a SATA drive
The device that I am installing grub to is a IDE device. So the
addressing should be ok. It is also mounted as /dev/hdaXY.
> What is the contents of your device.map file? I've seen that cause grub
> to search endlessly for a device that isn't there
As yesterday, I don't have my notebook at hand. I will check tonight.
What should be the content of device.map? Is it generated by grub?
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Cheers,
Marco
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