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dashnu
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Location: Casco Maine
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 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: Hey gentoo`ers I have a grub question |
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Hi all I am brandy new to gentoo and these forums. I have been using linux for about 7+ years and about two weeks ago tried gentoo for the first time 
I used red hat all the way up to 7.3 and stuck it out there untill they decided to drop support on it, then moved to slack. I recently got a job at a small development company admining there gentoo network (I am sooooo lucky) I love the job and am learning new things everyday. And wow do I really love gentoo. All these years using other distro's and not trying gentoo I should be slaped 
Anyways I went through a stage one install on my laptop and got everything running X - gnome ATI-3d alsa compiled 2.6.7 and was rockin. I have always used lilo for the boot loader and wanted to try grub for a few different reasons so I did the following.
poked around and removed excess lilo garbage than
ran grub and configured it to boot of my primary drive (hd0,0) setup it up and whatnot and configured grub.conf just to find when I reboot lilo still comes up.
so reading around I decided to wipe my MBR i used this command to do so 
| Code: | | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 |
yea, that wiped out my partition table...
Booted to LiveCd and used cfdisk to recreate my partiton tables mounted my file system ( /dev/hda1 = boot /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = root )
chroot 'ed and installed grub again and configured it. Only when I rebooted I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left... At first I thought I really screwed up my files system using the command given above but than I installed lilo and I am up and running.
I am not to good with grub (never used it)
My question is what can I do to get grub installed??
I have one drive. With these partitons like I said above
/dev/hda1 = boot /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = root
I tried this with grub
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grub > root (hd0,0)
grub > setup (hd0,0)
grub > quit
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My grub.conf
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Title gentoo
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.26 root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 |
Thanks for reading and I will return the favor and help other people as I can. |
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Genn
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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I think I had the same problem when i installed it. You do everything right and it still doesn't work. I dont' know if it will work for you, but I unmerged then remerged grub without optimizations.
| Code: | | CFLAGS="" emerge grub |
I read somewhere that grub did not like being run with optimizations (probably on this forum), and that fixed it for me. I haven't had any problem. If that doesn't help though I'm afraid I haven't the slightest idea. |
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jwj
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Joined: 07 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Hey gentoo`ers I have a grub question |
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| init-zero wrote: |
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grub > root (hd0,0)
grub > setup (hd0,0)
grub > quit
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I think usage is:
| Code: | grub > root (hd0,0)
grub > setup (hd0)
grub > quit
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CDLM
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Joined: 07 Jul 2003
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Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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yup - setup (hd0) will install the bootloader to the MBR, setup (hd0,0) will install it to the first partition.
- Dave - |
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dashnu
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Joined: 21 Jul 2004
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Location: Casco Maine
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Great guys thanks!! Im a grub now 
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weirdalex
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Joined: 25 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| CDLM wrote: | yup - setup (hd0) will install the bootloader to the MBR, setup (hd0,0) will install it to the first partition.
- Dave - |
yep, yep ... fixed me up, too !!
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