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 1HM5MX-0007ib-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:39:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1RGbVf5027252; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:37:31 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1RGVtlr020723 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:31:56 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so1109896ana for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:31:55 -0800 (PST) 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=ENkf7YnL/vPdiuC7QDX27Wl/qtTZCR3dy8no6Gdbyc6oAbqwSDddjaAIlPehZCHO7WGKW+EFjjvTOZd5cwJ/L7KlmulBFjMKLAC95Aio8e08c7RpOqYJLB3sLON6gvB1z1L3eCnlzDxiz9J4GbFLBGdWJIMerSAMibmnxRgAlRg= 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=cGEu5rl+vYFX8pjlmLeRJf0iLUPq7gAkHQ4CwoWoRvOJF3fB0SgjsFgj3XK3CPYqpLyIrnbbqoniS55RVUosn+j7QJjDO1UnRgXmsPE53s/Dcavmaq7HsievOtY2y27CZuYztNf2kmIkCcDRlDambtIY0H0ecQXbOx4BfpbZhG8= Received: by 10.100.152.9 with SMTP id z9mr5215992and.1172593915178; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.10.17 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:31:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <93d30e950702270831n959e967i2a3b116043247860@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:31:55 +0100 From: "Marco Schuler" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing GRUB In-Reply-To: <200702271721.12313.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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: <93d30e950702260412g85dc5e7u7f525e17c89afbce@mail.gmail.com> <200702262120.58729.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <93d30e950702270101s57feb06dqa5e5ba12b1122dc6@mail.gmail.com> <200702271721.12313.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: 52515356-a254-46d4-9065-f1e27abaca54 X-Archives-Hash: 41b1c081209ba8862147cd5fff1e8f3c Hi, On 2/27/07, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2/26/07, Alan McKinnon 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. > > OK, that's all fine then > > > > 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? > > With your one and only drive it will look like this: > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > It describes a mapping between linux disk devices and what grub will > call them. Who generates this file? Grub, default from Gentoo? > I just thought of something else: when you run grub-install, are you > doing it from a properly booted system, from inside a chroot, from a > rescue disk (where your gentoo filesystem is mounted somewhere), or a > different environment altogether? I am following the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. So I run the installation cd, and call grub-install from within the chroot environment (I work remotely using a ssh conection to the installation machine) -- Cheers, Marco. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list