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timop
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 Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject: continueing installation |
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Hi!
yesterday evening I started to install gentoo 1.3a and got it almost finish.after edit grub's menu.lst it fails and now computer starts to grub and thats it, well now I know what is wrong and want to repair menu.lst but how I can get back to allready installed gentoo, what is THE magic word on booting gentoo cd when prompting "boot: " |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Uuuuuhhh... <enter> ?
Seriously, just boot the CD the same way you did when installing, then make your mount points, and mount the partitions to them. Then go in and edit your menu.lst file.
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delta407
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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For more explicit instructions, see this thread.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| michaelb wrote: |
then make your mount points, and mount the partitions to them. Then go in and edit your menu.lst file.
Michael |
I did allready solve it, thanks anyway.
I have some problems with GRUB, I am not sure how to set it.
Do I have to do:
#grub
grub> root (hdx,x)
grub> setup (hdx)
grub> quit
or is it enough to make only /boot/grub/menu.lst
I have two harddisks: in hda1 winblows XP and in hdb1 /boot, hdb2 swap and in hdb3 / all linux partions are ext3 expect swap, and XP is fat32
when trying to do:
grub> root (hd1,0)
unable to mount... (i'll go check this)
grub> setup (hd1)
error.... (i'll go check this)
it won't work
my menu.lst:
default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3
title=XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1 |
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timop
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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this reply was mine...
| Anonymous wrote: |
I have two harddisks: in hda1 winblows XP and in hdb1 /boot, hdb2 swap and in hdb3 / all linux partions are ext3 expect swap, and XP is fat32
when trying to do:
grub> root (hd1,0)
unable to mount... (i'll go check this)
grub> setup (hd1)
error.... (i'll go check this)
it won't work
my menu.lst:
default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3
title=XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1 |
error message was:
grub> root (hd1,0) (does this mean /boot ??? )
filesystem type unknown partition type 0x6
grub> setup (hd1) (mean this which MBR to install ??? )
error 17: cannot mount selected partition |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| timop wrote: |
error message was:
grub> root (hd1,0) (does this mean /boot ??? )
filesystem type unknown partition type 0x6
grub> setup (hd1) (mean this which MBR to install ??? )
error 17: cannot mount selected partition |
Yes, the root (hd#,#) command in grubeese (did I just make up a word?) means the /boot partition. Based on the response you got, however, it looks like grub sees hda as hd1 in your system. I'm not sure why it's doing this, but try | Code: | # grub
grub> root (hd0,0) |
and see if it works. If so, then you should be home free. Just make sure to run setup (hd0), and switch all the entries in your menu.lst file as well. If not, post the error message it gives you and we'll take it from there. |
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timop
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:11 am Post subject: |
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many thanks everybody for help, found problem:
I did make partitions in XP and all linux partition type was FAT16.
I did convert these partitions to linux 83 and swap 82 and grub did install well. |
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