Damn thing just wont boot ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

sabre66 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 52

k... this is not my first install of gentoo my other 3 went fine all using 1.3a on either xp1500 or xp 1600 chips, well my new install with a xp1900 seemed to go fine until i go to boot up I get the splash select gentoo and then i get....
Booting Xerces
root (hd1,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs . partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3
[ linux-bzImage , setup = 0xc00 size= 0x1650fb]

and it just hangs. Ive read a ton of posts, reinstalled, changed settings but nothing seems to work BTW it'll boot to my winxp no prob. What am i missing here??? Ive also tried the 1.1 & 1.2 thinking it may be a problem with gcc 3 still no luck. Does gentoo not like xp1900 ?????.ps Ive also tried it without my winxp hd attached any advice would be good thanks

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Just for fun, what is your menu.lst file? What are your partitions? What are the BIOS
settings for LBA mode? Are you using RAID or a PCI controller? Have you tried recopying
the bzImage file back to /boot?
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sabre66 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 52

no raid or pci cards standard auto setup in bios LBA using latest bios for the board hd 30g ,yes i tried recopying bzImage back to /boot , yes boot was mounted.......lol

menu.lst

default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=xerces
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3

title=WinXp
root (hd0,0) <~~~~also tried with and without
chainloader +1 rootnoverify and make
active

oh well time fer bed.................thanks for now..........

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Your root partition is definately /dev/hdb3?
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sabre66 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 52

ya im positive it is I also did it in settings as hdb1 hdb2 still to no avail. also rebuilt it as a stnd alone hd set as hda still same problem. Look Im an electrical tech and i keep tellin my guys RTFM dont bug me, but this has really got me stumped. I swear im on my 6th reinstall thank god for for a fast connection........lol. .........

rommel · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 9:30 pm Post subject:

have you tried booting from a grub floppy and entering in the parameters manually at the grub prompt