more grubby problems

mboots · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

was wondering if anyone can help me out. I'm installing gentoo for the first time (starting at stage 2), and everything was working out good until the first reboot. Grub loads sucessfully, and can boot my windows partition, but when I try to boot Gentoo, my computer reboots immediately without any error messages.

Here's my partition scheme:

/dev/hda1 (hd0,0) Windows (bootable)
/dev/hda2 (hd0,1) Boot partition (bootable)
/dev/hda3 (hd0,2) Swap
/dev/hda4 (hd0,3) Linux root partition

/dev/hda2 is mounted on /boot of root partition.

my grub config looks something like this:
---------------------------------------------->

default 1
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage root=/dev/hda4

title=Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
---------------------------------------------->

again, it boots windows fine, and can find all the files (even the splash logo). I wonder if my kernel is maybe messed up - I'm recompiling it right now. Any help would be awesome.

Thanks guys.

bashnix · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 66

After you are done recompiling the kernel, try it. That may have been the problem. Make sure the partition is mounted before you copy the kernel over. (I know it sounds stupid but it has happened to the best of us.)

If that still doesn't work try running the commands yourself from the grub command line. You can do that by hitting 'c' when the menu first comes up. See if the errors are more visible.

mboots · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

ok... here goes:

[entering grub command shell]

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject:

Make sure you set the correct CPU type in menuconfig :

MOC · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 12

Mboots,

I had exactly the same problem. And, like cyrillic mentioned above, go back to menuconfig and make the appropriate changes. But, also take a look of fstab (nano -w /etc/fstab).

Mario

mboots · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

I tried replacing grub /w lilo, but it does the same thing. It must be my kernel. I'll recompile and double-check fstab tomorrow. For now it's off to bed with me, as my final exams are tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestions everybody.

idris33 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 91

mboots,

In your grub.conf, instead of :
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz and
kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage root=/dev/hda4

try:
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz and
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4

methodx · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 3

this is just a thought and being the total linux noob that i am im prolly 100% wrong but its just a thought. If (hd0,0) is windows partition its safe to say that is C:\ im guessing...
when u boot up do u even see the grub menu? it might just be booting from the windows partition, if thats the case i think windows 98 uses autoexec.bat and config.sys and all that good crap, windows 2k and XP use "boot.ini" on the C:\. you might have luck if thats the case editing that in notepad. u wont see it from inside windows but it is there. just go to c:\ within notepad's open dialog box and type boot.ini and open it from there, make a backup of the original incase anything gets bunked up.

idris33 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 91

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mboots · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

Thanks for the help guys. I took a look at my kernel config, and sure enough it was compiled for P3-Celeron, instead of my stupid VIA C3. Still waiting for the recompile to finish, but I hope this will fix it.