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On Monday 26 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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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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> I got trough the gentoo installation up to the point of installing |
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> grub. After the command 'grub-install /dev/hda' my machine hangs |
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> displaying the following meassage: |
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> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time |
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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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What is the contents of your device.map file? I've seen that cause grub |
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to search endlessly for a device that isn't there |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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