Mah com ain't boot

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I installed gentoo over an old gentoo install. I wiped /, but didn't touch /boot, except to add a new kernel after i finished booting, after i finished installing i installed grub, ran root (hd0,0) and setup (hd0). menu.lst is syntactically correct. However, when i rebooted all i get is a flashing cursor. No grub menu, no error, nada. hda1 is bootable. what's wrong? I can boot fine with knoppix.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject:

menu.lst is the old configuration file...
Do this:

# ln -sf /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/grub.conf

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

done that. still nogo
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Try re-running grub again... (root + setup).

As a workaround, use lilo, at least you'll have it bootable, then we can see what's happening to grub.

Also have a look at this long sticky topic in the installation forum: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

lilo works. thx.
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