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etm117
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 Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 3:26 am Post subject: Constant reboots after install |
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I went through the entire install 4 times now trying different things. When I reboot, I never even see GRUB, it just automatically reboots.
Dual Celeron 366 (I loaded the celeron kernel option, not the P3)
512MB RAM
Matrox G400
SCSI system:- 18GB hard drive
- sda1 (5GB) - WinXP NTFS already installed (4 trial installs of Gentoo and never killed my XP partition, woohoo
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- sda5 (10GB) - NTFS Windows files partition
- sda6 (100MB) - ext2 /boot
- sda7 (256MB) - swap
- sda8 (rest) - ext2 /
- Plextor 40Max
- Plextor 8x20
- Pioneer 6x DVD
40GB IDE NTFS drive of files for WinXP
Now I set up grub as following
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grub> root (hd1,5) /* b/c hd0 is my IDE drive, tested with TABs */
grub> setup (hd1)
grub> quit
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My menu.lst:
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda8
title=Windows XP Pro
root (hd1,0)
rootnoverify(hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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The result is the same every time, when I reboot, my computer will get to the point where it should run GRUB, but it will just reboot instead.
Any ideas?
PS... need more info, say so, I'll give what I can to get this to work. |
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Nitro
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As far as I can see, you overlooked something simple. Grub maps disks differently then linux. Example, you say (hd1), and in linux that means /dev/hdb (or the scsi equivalent for second physical driver). Grub starts counting at (hd0). And you only have one physcial drive correct?
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Avi
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| Another possibility is that what you think is hd0 might not be so as far as Grub is concerned. The problem is that when you have a mix of IDE and SCSI drives you cannot be sure which drive is what. The order is determined by the BIOS. I had to use the grub 'find' command to locate the correct hd number. Do a find on your bzImage and Grub will tell you which hd it found it on. This is your boot partition. |
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etm117
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:52 am Post subject: |
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I have 2 hard drives, the IDE and SCSI. I'm installing on the SCSI.
I did the find, no luck, told me the same drive as I thought... (hd1,5)
Could it be a kernel option I put? I don't think that would be an issue as GRUB doesn't load any of the kernel until I tell it to, correct? |
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Nitro
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You still have to install Grub on hd0, your BIOS drops boots off your primary master. I think you would run setup (hd0) and leave everything else the same, but I'm no grub expert.
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