Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 05:54:32
Message-Id: 200805090754.04644.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub> by Mark Knecht
1 Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Mark Knecht:
2
3 > I've done a new install this evening. The install went OK as far as I
4 > could tell. I didn't wipe the disk but I did make new file systems
5 > using mke2fs for both /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7. I then installed NT in
6 > /dev/hda0 and finally did Gentoo. The grub-0.97-r5 install seemed to
7 > go OK, however when I boot I jsut get some grub messages (Stage 1,
8 > Stage 1.5) and then just
9 >
10 > grub >
11 >
12 > where the machine sits. Grub auto-completion is working so I type
13 >
14 > What would cause grub to sit there and wait for me to type in the
15 > stuff that's in grub.conf anyway?
16
17 It seems it doesn't find your grub.conf, thus has no menu. Is it on (hd0,4)
18 (I assume that is where your stageX files are located)? If not, create it.
19 If no, try renaming it to menu.lst (or create a symlink with that name).
20
21 HTH...
22
23 Dirk
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