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Hi, |
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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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> > 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 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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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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> 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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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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Cheers, |
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Marco |
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