Grub - help

ekim1 · Guest

Could someone please help me. I have followed all the instructions to install Gentoo but cannot configure GRUB.

I am getting this error (error 23: error while parsing number)

Any help would be appreciated

thanks

meyerm · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 1:13 pm Post subject:

Could you please post your exact steps? Where did you enter what to get this message?

ekim1 · Guest

This message is coming from within GRUB

** root (hd0,0) ***

error message 23 comes after this.

Please take pity on me as this is only the second time I have tried to install Gentoo.

Many thanks

ekim1 · Guest

Well I have been trying and still can't get the thing to work. I unmounted and re-started with the CD. Could you advise the steps I have to take to get it to boot.

Again, thanks for any help given.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

The Grub Manual says this:

ekim1 · Guest

I have SCSI HDs connected to a Adaptec 39160 and a Plex writer 12/10/32 connected to a Adaptec 2930U card. To make things simple I just used one of my hardrives and created 3 Primary partitions as per the instructions. The SCSI bios is booted SCSI ID0 and the MB Bios is set to boot from the SCSI card.

My previous post was wrong I have been putting

** root (sd0,0) *** not (hd0,0) for IDE.

I'm sure it is something quite simple as the rest of the installation went well apart from Grub.

Thanks

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

See this page and scroll down a little until you see "The map between BIOS drives and OS devices". That might be related.
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