Can't boot

Iaremonkey · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 10

I finally got grub setup right and now I cannot get gentoo to boot, all I do get is a list of line of text that go by too fast to read,

my grub file looks like this:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject:

Does the booting stop at some point? What do you have in the screen? Does the system reboot or crash?
If you boot with the live-cd, mount the partitions, chroot and do

Iaremonkey · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 10

system crashes and my monitor turns off

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

Have you tried using any kernel options as noapci or acpi=off?
Can you put your .config file somewhere in the Internet, preferably not here? If not, post here the file.
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count_zero · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

Try this entry in your grub.conf to see if your computer will boot:

dwblas · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:

root = /dev/sda5 and boot=root(hd0,1). This means that /boot = /dev/sda2 if that is your first drive. Is this correct, boot=sda2 and root=sda5, as that is slightly unusual?

count_zero · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

dwblas · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject:

No further response hopefully means that the problem was solved. If someone is looking at this to solve a grub problem, it was most likely with the "root (hd0,1)" statement. Double check this in your setup. Grub is confusing to anyone used to the /dev/hda1 type nomenclature. I've been using linux for 10 years and it's still a problem. Maybe I'll go back to lilo some day.