Grub not working :/

Danny3618 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2011 Posts: 12 Location: Puerto Rico

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4379/unledva.jpg

That's all I get when I turn it on, and yes, I did setup the root, kernel and initrd.

can anyone help? Thanks =]

(BTW, this is the first time I install Gentoo, sorry if this is a noob question haha)

Jaglover · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject:

GRUB probably does not find any entries in your menu.lst and defaults to command line, waiting for you to specify what kernel to boot.
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Danny3618 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2011 Posts: 12 Location: Puerto Rico

and how can I fix it?

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21709

Start by showing us the contents of nl menu.lst and the steps you used to install grub.

gentoo_dude · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:43 am Post subject:

boot your computer with a live cd, and follow the gentoo installation guide to chroot in your "not" booting environment. Please DO NOT use fdisk or mkfs for format your existing partitions, you have already done that step when you installed your gentoo. Just mount your system under /mnt/gentoo and chroot in there. Now you can find your menu.lst under /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Make sure you have your kernel listed in there that you want to boot from.

Jaglover · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:53 am Post subject:

You really do not need chroot for editing a file. Mounting going-to-be /boot or / if there is no separate boot partition will suffice.
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Danny3618 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2011 Posts: 12 Location: Puerto Rico

hahaaa damn I feel so dumb, it was the menu.lst, it all had the # symbol
thanks for the help =] God bless you =]
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