grey screen on boot from grub

brainyguy · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:31 am Post subject: grey screen on boot from grub

I just installed gentoo, and followed the handbook step by step (stage1), and everything went well. When I boot from grub, the screen just goes grey and nothing happens. Nothing will load.

My grub.conf is the same as the handbook, except with my partitions substituted in. I can't find anything wrong with the installation.

Any suggestions?

deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

How did you partition your drive? If you can, please post your grub.conf.

brainyguy · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:48 am Post subject:

here's my grub.conf

deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

This is off the top of my head, but when you were installing gentoo, did you remember to do the following:

rockyNBA · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 9

It seems that the kenerl cannot locate while booting.
What is your boot partition? If you use the same partition as root partition, you should add parent directory /boot to your kernel path.

brainyguy · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

I mounted my boot partition when installing, you cant install grub if you don't

my boot partition is /dev/hda5, so should i change root to equal root=/dev/hda5 ? instead of root=/dev/hda7?

Its just that in the installation guide they had /boot on /dev/hda1 and / on /dev/hda3, and they had root=/dev/hda3 so i put /dev/hda7

I'll try adding /dev/hda5 to the parent directory.

linux_weenie · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 365

i'm not sure but i think this might be a problem with the Windows BootLoader battling with grub. When I dual booted my system I had to use a chainloader to get the Windows and gentoo to cooperate. just look at GRUBs website to see how to use the chainloader command, hopefully that will help.

-Will
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linux_weenie · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 365

oh yeah and install GRUB to the MBR

-Will
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monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

Perhaps try editing grub.conf (in a chroot from the livecd) and comment out/remove the splashimage line. That usually fixes problems like this.

-Monkey

brainyguy · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 3:45 am Post subject:

tried commenting the splashimage line in grub.conf

no success tho

Any more ideas?