Installation / grub ? problem.

Twink · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:12 am Post subject: Installation / grub ? problem.

Ok, I installed 1.4rc1 on my pentium 200, 32MB, with 2GB hdd, had to use the boot disk method but it seemed to work. I did the full thing from a stage1 tarball (yes it did take quite a while).

Having followed the instructions, I then tried installing grub, which didn't like my partition type, but that was soon fixed with fdisk, using option t, to set the correct partition types (as I originally used msdos fdisk to set them up). Grub then installed fine using.

root (hd0,0)
setup(hd0)

my menu.lst
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/slash.xpm.gz (just noticed this is spelt wrong, not sure it it's causing my problem thou)

title=Name
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root/dev/hda6

My HDD's
hda1 = 100 MB ext3 boot
hda2 = extended which has the drivers hda5 and hda6 on it
hda5 = swap
hda6 = 1.5GB ext3

My Problem.
Grub loads fine and displays the menu, however when i select my option (obviously the only one there) it seems to start loading bzimage, then the computer just fully reboots, I can't figure out for the life of me why.

SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

Twink · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 9:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, I didn't actually forget it, I just mistyped my info in here.

neo529 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 91

try going to the grub command line and type the boot commands in and see what happens. From the command line type

Twink · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:23 am Post subject:

yeah, it does

SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

Didn't you select a wrong processor type or something like that in the kernel config ?
What are the last lines displayed after the begining of the loading of bzImage ?

Alfafa · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Copenhagen

Hmm. I got nearly the same problem. I got reiserfs on both my boot and root partiton. I installed a newer masked ebuild of grub to get it to read reiserfs (gentoo 1.4rc1), but after compiling the kernel with devfs, reiser and all the required things, my computer stops right after grub loads and boot the kernel, and the scroll and capslock LEDS are blinking...any suggestions...I am giving the kernel the right root parameter.

Regards
Hasse

Twink · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 8:46 pm Post subject:

I think I'm selecting something wrong in the make menuconfig, but I'm really no sure what to select

Twink · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:01 pm Post subject:

yeah I had the wrong cpu selected.

now it boots