Please Please Please HELP - Grub problem

DArtagnan

I just finished the Gentoo instalation and the grub does not work as i expect :-(

Please help me, i think i was configured the menu.lst incorect.

These are my setings of 2 hard drives:
First HD holds win2k + gentoo
Second holds RedHat 72
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sk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2551 5004 19711755 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2551 3728 9462253+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3729 3741 104391 83 Linux // my "/boot" partition
/dev/hda7 3742 4972 9887976 83 Linux // my "/" partition
/dev/hda8 4973 5004 257008+ 82 Linux swap // my swap partition
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******************* SECOND HD********************************************
sk /dev/hdb: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 108 50998+ 83 Linux // my "/boot" partition
/dev/hdb2 109 12219 5722447+ 83 Linux // my "/" partition
/dev/hdb3 12220 13328 524002+ 82 Linux swap // my swap partition
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The menu.lst file holds the following:

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Distribution
root (hd0,5)
kernek /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda7

# RedHat ver. 7.2 space
title=RedHat ver. 7.2
root (hd1,0)

# Windows 2000 Pro space
title=Windows 2000 Pro
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Please Please Please HELP
Many Thanks[/u][/b]

Flake · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 12:21 pm Post subject:

didn't read your entire question and all its data, but the problem i notices following the instructions etc was:

a directory /boot is created, but even if my /dev/hda2 (my boot partition) was not mounted, it still contained data. (probably from my / partition)

mounting the boot partition to another new dir showed it empty. in that new dir, make a /boot and a /grub , copy the nececairy files to the dirs and tryed again.

worked for me.

DArtagnan · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 12:25 pm Post subject: Grub prob

Can you explaind more?

LibraMark · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 8:14 pm Post subject: Grub

What doesn't work? Can grub boot any of your os's?

Looks like your grub menu is ok, except it doesn't really say "kernek" does it?

Can you check your /boot menu and see if your bzImage is really there?

Mark.

Guest · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

I had a problem with Grub and partitions. I had /boot & / in an extended partition. Until I put /boot into a primary partition,
it wouldn't work. Looks like you may have a similar problem.

fghellar · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 9:00 pm Post subject:

This thread was a double post and was already solved in the other thread. I'll lock this one now. Thanks LibraMark and Guest for trying to help, and sorry for your wasted time.
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