boot grub problems

[chimpsky]

my system seems to be working fine save two problems:

1 durring the boot process the screen is all garbled up just showing a bunch of garbage not even real letters or numbers untill about half way through the boot process then it clicks on it looks just fine (im not at all worried about this but if you know a quick solution i would appreciate it)

2 grub is not loading when i boot up it simply goes straight into the boot process and loads gentoo, i followed the instillation guide/doc very closely and went back over making sure i made no errors does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it???
thank you

[ebruning]

What is your timeout value in your grub.conf? Do you have VGA= set?

It may also help if you post your grub.conf.

[chimpsky]

this is my grub.conf file in /boot/grub/grub.conf

default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hda0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=gentoo (genkernel)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r9_old root=/dev/hda3
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r9

title=gentoo (iptables)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r9

i added the second part when i was dealing with iptables but the bootloader didnt appear before that
any suggestions???

[Doomwookie]

Try commenting out the the splashimage line with a "#". I was having a simalar problem with my P25-S607, and when I commented out that line, suddenly everything was clear, no purdy background, bit it was very readable.
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Toshiba Satellite P25-S607
Gentoo/Windows MCE Dualboot

[chimpsky]

it worked thanks

[Cerement]

there's also a typo in your splash image line

splashimage=(hda0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

should be
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

[chimpsky]

that was it... its sad isnt it