Problem with grub.

Royle · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 223

Yesterday I tried installing Gentoo Linux. It seemed to work well until I finished it. When I rebooted, grub loaded except it was black and white, with a really blury picture and lines running down it. I also got a few errors but I couldn't make them out it was so blurry. I tried booting Gentoo but that didn't work.

So today I went to try again. I mounted the drives and chrooted. I went to edit my grub.conf but it was blank. I typed it up again and tried to save it but I got an error saying "no such file or directory". So I tried installing Grub again and editing grub.conf but to the same problem.

My partion scheme is this : hda1 = windows XP
hdb1 = /boot
hdb2 = swap
hdb3 = /root

I installed grub to (hd0) and set my bios to boot from the slave drive.

Also, I was just trying to shut down my computer I'm trying to install gentoo on and I'm getting an error saying "init: /dev/initctl no such file or directory"

And 1 last thing. Should I try uninstalling grub and then try installing it agian? I installed it twice now and have not uninstalled it.

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

I wonder if the reason it told you "no such file or directory" is b/c you didnt mount your boot partition before you tried to edit the config file?
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Royle · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 223

well I just used "mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot" and it says that does not exist.

edit: I used used "ls" in /mnt and there was only cdrom and floppy.

knefas · l33t Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 828

I'm not sure to understand your problem, but you may want to have a look here
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap5

and run

Royle · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 223

I did that mkdir thing when I first installed gentoo. Am I supposed to do it everytime after or something?

knefas · l33t Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 828

I feel like you have tried do to

michaelkuijn · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:25 am Post subject:

/dev/hdb1 is in the chroot too then, right? Doesn't that give problems? I would just exit from the chroot.

nightm4re · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject:

nah, after a reboot, there is no more chrooted thing, cuz its actually booting from a partition.

ensure /boot exists, then do mount /dev/hdb1 /boot, then go edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf from there.

sounds like you tried using a splash image that was too big for your card t handle? something like that maybe.
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