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Hi, |
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On 2/27/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > On 2/26/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> > > On Monday 26 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: |
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> > > > Hi all, |
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> > > > |
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> > > > after using other distributions for years I finally decided to go |
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> > > > with gentto to have to most flexibility. So here I am :-) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I got trough the gentoo installation up to the point of |
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> > > > installing grub. After the command 'grub-install /dev/hda' my |
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> > > > machine hangs displaying the following meassage: |
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> > > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long |
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> > > > time |
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> > > |
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> > > You are installing grub to an IDE device. Is that how you normally |
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> > > address that device? It might be a SATA drive |
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> > |
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> > The device that I am installing grub to is a IDE device. So the |
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> > addressing should be ok. It is also mounted as /dev/hdaXY. |
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> OK, that's all fine then |
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> > > What is the contents of your device.map file? I've seen that cause |
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> > > grub to search endlessly for a device that isn't there |
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> > |
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> > As yesterday, I don't have my notebook at hand. I will check tonight. |
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> > What should be the content of device.map? Is it generated by grub? |
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> With your one and only drive it will look like this: |
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> (hd0) /dev/hda |
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> It describes a mapping between linux disk devices and what grub will |
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> call them. |
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Who generates this file? Grub, default from Gentoo? |
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> I just thought of something else: when you run grub-install, are you |
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> doing it from a properly booted system, from inside a chroot, from a |
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> rescue disk (where your gentoo filesystem is mounted somewhere), or a |
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> different environment altogether? |
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I am following the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. So I run the |
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installation cd, and call grub-install from within the chroot |
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environment (I work remotely using a ssh conection to the installation |
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machine) |
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Cheers, |
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Marco. |
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