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Update. |
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After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda |
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That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2 |
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The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now |
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(fd0) /dev/fd0 |
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(hd0) /dev/hde |
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(hd1) /dev/hdh |
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(hd2) /dev/sda |
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I edited the grub.conf file so that the splash image and root lines reference (hd2,5), then re-ran grub-install /dev/sda. Still no joy. On boot up, the screen stays blank for a while, then every 10 seconds or so, it adds another " GRUB" text element to the screen. No sign of any boot-up activity. |
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Jeff |
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-----Original Message----- |
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>From: Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@×××××××××.net> |
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>Sent: Oct 29, 2006 1:47 PM |
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>To: gentoo-user@g.o |
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>Subject: Grub problems |
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>I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). |
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>My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor. |
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>I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4, and maps within Linux to /dev/sda. |
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>I also have two other parallel IDE dard drives, connected via a raid controller (though not configured for RAID) to Drive numbers 0 and 3 on the RAID controller. These drives map to hde and hdh respectively, with a DVD writer mapping to both /dev/hda and /dev/dvdrw. |
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>The bios is configured to boot first from the DVD (primary IDE master) then from the 250GB SATA hard drive. |
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>swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 |
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>I am running genkernel |
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>After I configure grub, and install grub to the mbr using grub-install, the reboot fails, with GRUB doing nothing but display the text 'GRUB'. |
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>Evidently, either I am doing something wrong at the grub-install stage, or there is a problem with grub. I have had a similar lack of success with Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva installs (same problem). |
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>The boot partition is an ext3 filesystem |
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>My grub.conf file is as follows: |
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>default=0 |
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>timeout=30 |
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>splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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>title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 |
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> root (hd0,5) |
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> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi |
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> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 |
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>When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors. |
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>The device.map file contains the following |
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>(hd0) /dev/sda |
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>This file was generated by the fedora installation (possibly the source of the problem?). |
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>Any suggestions gratefully received, as I'm trying to get this system working by the end of the weekend. |
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>Thanks in advance |
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>Jeff |
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