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OrbiT^
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject: Grub problem |
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Hello,
I'm installing gentoo on a AMD Athlon 3200+ 64bit processor, everything went fine as always but when i had to reboot after installing grub the bootloader outputs the following:
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"GRUB loading stage 1.5."
"GRUB loading, please wait..." |
I know there have been many topics about this, i've read much of them and tried all kinds of things but i made no progress.
Here's some information about my machine:
I have a VIA VT8237 Serial ATA controller with 2 x 160gb disks connected.
The /dev/sda (first disk) disk i have partitioned like this:
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/dev/sda1 boot Linux (ext3) /boot
/dev/sda2 Linux Swap
/dev/sda3 Reiserfs /
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The device.map file contains the /dev/sda HD as (hd0).
My grub.conf looks like this:
| Code: | timeout 1
default 0
title=server2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/sda3
setup (hd0) |
If i run grub-install it says that the installation is completed successfully and no problems have been reported.
But still i get the same error.
I've tried to emerge grub with empty CFLAGS -> did not work
I've tried grub-static -> did not work
I've tried a unstable lilo version -> did not work (got L 99 99 99 99 ...)
I've tried ...
Does somebody has a suggestion because i'm getting crazy 
Thanks,
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davascript
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I beleive if you change you grub.conf to look like this then you will boot.
| Code: | default 0
timeout 1
title=server2
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/sda3
setup (hd0) |
you root drive sda3 should be counted as hd0,2 and only one space between root and (hd0,2)
What happens when it boots? |
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply but it didn't help and i think that root (hd0,0) was right.
I read so in the gentoo handbook. |
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry didn't saw the grub error collection, you may delete this topic, i've reposted it in the grub error collection. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:12 am Post subject: |
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You have | Code: | timeout 1
default 0 |
when it should be | Code: | default 0
timeout 1 |
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nephros
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:28 am Post subject: |
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No, setup() should not be in the config file.
It's the command which installs the boot loader and supposed to be used in the grub shell, not in the config file.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| they are right |
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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edited the config file but those things did not make a difference  |
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Okay next.
It should be "title server2" instead of "title=server2".
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Tried that before and doesn't help to. Some howto's tell me to use 'title=server2' others 'title server2'. |
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Okay sorry. The sample file included with grub doesn't use the = so I went after that.
Which brings me to my next idea: could you please post the output of
"ls -l /boot/grub"
versus
"ls -l /lib/grub/$ARCH-pc" (replace $ARCH with whatever is in that dir)
and
"ls -l /usr/lib/grub"
Perhaps your /boot wasn't mounted when you updated grub and the stages in /boot/grub don't match the grub version in the bootloader.
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hey man, thanks for helping me with my problem, here you have the output of the 2 first command phrases:
the 3th dir you would like me to run ls on doesn't exist?
| Code: | livecd / # ls -l /boot/grub/
total 438
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Sep 20 20:03 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Sep 17 19:39 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8052 Sep 20 20:03 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7812 Sep 20 20:03 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7060 Sep 20 20:03 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Sep 20 20:03 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1624 Sep 19 22:45 grub.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7124 Sep 20 20:03 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8544 Sep 20 20:03 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 17 18:58 menu.lst -> grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7252 Sep 20 20:03 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9524 Sep 20 20:03 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33856 Sep 19 22:45 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 20 20:03 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105544 Sep 20 20:04 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105544 Sep 19 22:01 stage2.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105544 Sep 19 22:45 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7336 Sep 20 20:03 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6708 Sep 20 20:03 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9372 Sep 20 20:03 xfs_stage1_5 |
| Code: | livecd / # ls -l /lib/grub/x86_64-pc/
total 304
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8052 Sep 19 22:45 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7812 Sep 19 22:45 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7060 Sep 19 22:45 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7124 Sep 19 22:45 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8544 Sep 19 22:45 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7252 Sep 19 22:45 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9524 Sep 19 22:45 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 19 22:45 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105544 Sep 19 22:45 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105544 Sep 19 22:45 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7336 Sep 19 22:45 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6708 Sep 19 22:45 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9372 Sep 19 22:45 xfs_stage1_5 |
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OrbiT^
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| It's very frustrading, installed a very nice linux distro on a very nice new computer and it doesn't want to boot :s |
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nephros
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Looks okay. Damn. 
Are you really really sure your boot partition is actually mounted when you do all this checking and the conf editing? Yes it's a stupid question bit who knows.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes it is, i always mount /dev/sda1 on /boot before i chroot /mnt/gentoo (where /dev/sda3 is mounted on) |
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