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abhishek
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| Sesquipedalian wrote: | do you have the recursive link to /boot ?
if not, mount /boot, cd to /boot and create it:
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Thanks i think this fixed my problem. When i was installing i reformatted /boot after i had extracted the tarball and i didnt want to do that again so i emerged grub but didnt do this, so i had been using (hd0,1)/bzImage. |
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tactless
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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It didn't solve mine...
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Tiger
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Like kaplan I left a space between (hd0,0) and /boot. No splash image.
Take the space out and it works.
My Gentoo build is from a stage1 tarball. My grub --version reports GNU Grub 0.90.
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tactless
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Same version here, and there is no space there... my exact menu.lst file is:
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timeout 10
default 0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/splash.xpm
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
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Tiger
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Add a .gz to the end of the filename.
Other than that I can't see why it isn't working.
Your menu.lst is almost the same as mine with the exception of my drive configuration and dual boot stanza.
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wickidpisa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think you should have gunzip'ed the image. I'm pretty sure grub expects a gzip'ed file. I only guess this from instructions from other websites that say to gzip the file if you want to replace the splash image, so I would assume that you have to have it gzip'ed. |
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ebichu
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Also, it normally goes in /boot/grub, rather than /boot as you have it, though I guess you can stick it where you like as long as the path specified in menu.lst matches. It's just one more thing to check.
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Tiger
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yep,
The line should read splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
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tactless
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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The oddities you guys have mentioned were because of my experiements to get it working... the current situation has been reverted to what should work.
menu.lst:
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timeout 10
default 0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
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/dev/hda1 is the boot partition. It has a recursive symlink (boot -> ./), and the grub directory contains splash.xpm.gz. I've tested it and it's viewable when gunzipped.
Just to be extra-clear: It still doesn't work. No splash screen, just white on black text.
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ebichu
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| tactless wrote: | strings /boot/grub/stage2 | grep vga16 returns nothing
How do I merge the patch? |
I've only just noticed that reply from a week ago as I skipped to the last page! So your GRUB has no vga16 patches? How did that happen? Does strings /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2 | grep vga16 show anything? (This is assuming you have emerged grub on an i386-pc!)
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tactless
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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$ strings /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2 | grep vga16
Changes display type. Available modes are "text" and "vga16".
vga16
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Sounds about right... My installation of grub worked like this: Downloaded Gentoo 1.2 x86 Stage1 ISO (used tomsrtbt to install, no cd burner), splash image didn't work. Did emerge grub, it recompiled, splash image still didn't work. How the patch got lost in there, I don't know.
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ebichu
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the late reply.
I think you just need to mount /boot and run something like grub-install /dev/hda1 (to boot GRUB from the boot sector of your boot partition /dev/hda1), or grub-install /dev/hda (to boot GRUB from the master boot record). This depends on what you have in these sectors already, though if you are currently booting all installed OSes via the one copy of GRUB, installing into the master boot record will be okay.
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Polansky
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Did you try to "flip" the first two lines of your menu.lst file? I do not know if this will really solve your problem, but this is the only difference between your menu.lst file and the one proposed in the INSTALL DOC
("http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html" -- see Code listing 43)
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tactless
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:50 am Post subject: |
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One of the two last tips worked... probably the latter, because I already tried reinstalling from within the grub shell. My god, that's a stupid bug...
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ebichu
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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On my machine, the order of those two lines makes no difference it works either way.
I tried the grub-install command myself (to see if it works as I've never used it before) but it couldn't map the parameters I gave it to BIOS disks. Oh well.
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