Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk - resolved
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:26:24
Message-Id: a4a9bfcb0904080426x572cdf1ct570eff6d99d883d9@mail.gmail.com
1 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Barry Schwartz
3 > <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >> Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com> skribis:
5 >>> I suspect the problem has to be in the BIOS settings yet it looks alright.
6 >>> I'm wondering if grub can be told to put out more early information.
7 >>
8 >> Did you do a grub-install to write the MBR?
9 >>
10 > when I did revdep-rebuild it rebuild grub & appeared to do a
11 > grub-install, however I will manually do it & see.
12 >
13
14 I had to do:
15 $ grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
16 $ grub --no-floppy
17 grub> root (hd0,0)
18 grub> setup (hd0)
19
20 after that it boots fine.
21 could not get grub-install to work at all.