Cant boot into gentoo after installation [SOLVED]

twister666 · Last edited by twister666 on Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:46 am; edited 1 time in total

I just finished installing gentoo basics (stage 1-11 in gentoo handbook). Everything worked well and installed everything as it said in the instructions but for some reason the bootscreen after rebooting comes corrupt. black and white and full of some hyeroglephs. please does anyone know how to fix?

jseymour · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

Probably best to remount your partitions manually, chroot to the system, and doublecheck your settings for your bootloader.
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twister666 · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:29 am Post subject:

i re-run everything and double checked and still didnt work. Dont know what is the problem.
the screen doesnt show no image and no text. it looks like something is going on but behind funky characters.

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

See if anything here could fit your problem.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml
Does the screen become corrupt after the kernel loads, or as soon as grub does?
You say that something might be going on you just can't say what. Does your hardware seem to be at work? Are you able to hear your hard drive working for example? If it does seem to be working your system might be working, and you have some graphics problem.
It's my understanding that acpi can cause the most wierd problems. I have no idea if it could be responsible for this, but try acpi=off in the grub.conf.
You can add this temporarily edit grub.conf by pressing "e" at the menu. Press "b" to "boot", once your done.

nixnut · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

Try commenting out the splashimage line in grub.conf. If that works, that mean you were pointing grub to the wrong location.
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twister666 · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:37 am Post subject:

thank you for help. i cant really say if it works because i reinstall gentoo from scratch to make sure i didnt omit anything. I will post how it goes!