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dukie69
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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: GRUB problem. |
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I managed to install GRUB finally. I did, cause my boot partition is /dev/sde2 and then i did I then typed and proceeded to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file which by the way looks like this.
| Code: | default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo (2.6.9-Gentoo-r1)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sde4
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r1
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
now when i boot my computer instead of GRUB displaying the OS choices, it boots into the GRUB command prompt instead I don't know what else to do i have checked everything and everything seems to be fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Tamsco
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Question #1 Genkernel or not because if you did use it, you are missing a few things
check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10
Otherwise it might not be able to find the conf file. This might be a stupid suggestion but are you sure you mounted the boot partition before saving in /boot?
Good luck
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Enlight
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| I may have missed something but I can't see how sde and hd0 can match, could you please post the output for fdisk -l? first sata drive should be sda or hde. |
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Adrien
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Your grub.conf looks quite weird too...here's what you should put in it (at least if you didn't mistake yourself about the drive number - cf. Enlight):
| Code: | default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo (2.6.9-Gentoo-r1)
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sde4
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r1
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
cheers, |
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Deathwing00
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