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On 2009-01-17, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:31:22PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went |
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>> fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After |
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>> emerging grub, the "root" command failed: |
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>> grub> root (hd0,2) |
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>> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist |
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> Did you try it on a chroot system? |
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Yes, that was in the chroot'ed system. |
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> If so, did you have access on /dev /proc and /sys inside the |
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> chroot? |
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I thought so. Everything else seemed to work. I definitely |
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checked to make sure /proc was mounted -- I cut/pasted the |
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commands from the quick-install web page (changing sda to hda). |
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But, now that you mention it, something in /dev was wrong |
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because the first time I booted Gentoo off hda2, the "issue" |
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message that's displayed before the login prompt gave |
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instructions on how to fix /dev. I never figured out what |
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exactly was wrong, but following the instructions fixed it. |
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It took me a while to get to that point since I tripped over |
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the grub bug that displays a blank menu and then corrupts the |
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console. Apparently there's something wrong with the |
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splash.xpm.gz file, and you have to comment out the splashcreen |
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line in menu.lst. |
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Grant |
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