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albrow
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 Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 12:02 pm Post subject: Grub not loading on a Winchip2A-200 machine |
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I'm currently trying to build a Winchip2A-200 machine using Gentoo 1.1a. Everything has compiled fine (albeit a bit slowly) but when I reboot I get an Error 2 at Stage 1.5. I've just used the same menu.lst file as in the documentation (without the dual-boot section). Both /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda3 are ext3.
This is my second separate Gentoo install; the other was on a Duron 950 using the Stage-3 tarball, which has been running fine. I'm just a little confused as to why this is happening. I'm not even sure if it is a problem with the menu.lst file, as even commenting out all of the lines comes up with the same message (surely it would just come up with a command line if it couldn't find menu.lst?).
Your thoughts, please.
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albrow
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Delta: I tried LILO just after my first mailing, and all I get is the LI "prompt" (if you can call it a prompt).
FGHellar: Contents of fdisk -l /dev/hda
| Code: | Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 51 102784+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 52 102 102816 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 103 622 1048320 83 Linux |
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albrow
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Oh, and menu.lst is:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 |
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Aha! On consultation with one of my housemates (a bit of a LILO guru, or so he says  ) LILO was trying to access hda using LBA. On adding linear and removing lba from lilo.conf, Gentoo booted fine!
Right, now my next question is how do I force GRUB to not use LBA. According to the documentation, GRUB autodetects whether LBA should be used or not, or alternatively one can force it to be switched on (using --force-lba). Does anyone know of a way of forcing it to be switched off?
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