Grub and AMD64 hangs

LordArthas · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject: Grub and AMD64 hangs

Hi all!

I'm trying to install Gentoo 2004.2 (using the LiveCD) but I can't really manage to boot the installed system. I tried all the suggestions I found in other threads (compile grub with CFLAGS="", ...) but nothing worked. It just hangs here:

j-m · Retired Dev Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 975

But you need grub-static, do you have it?

LordArthas · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I tried with both: grub-static (0.93) and grub (0.94, complied with the multilib-enabled gcc I emerged). They just give the same exact problem...

By the way, the boot partition in is ext2 filesystem.

Thanks, Michele.

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LordArthas · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

Hi!

LordArthas · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I finally managed to boot Gentoo by copying the lilo binary from my Athlon XP 32bit. That worked just fine. The only problem was that the new kernel (2.6.9) sees my SATA disc as /dev/sda, while the Gentoo LiveCD (2.6.7) was seeing it as /dev/hde, so I had to edit /etc/fstab.

Now that my system is up, I'll try to set Grub up with a more calm. ;-)

Michele.

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LordArthas · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

Hi!

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ap viper · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 95

*is amazed*
The same thing has worked for me! Grub froze on me as well, but thanks to your binary, I have a bootable system. Thanks a million!

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Deathwing00 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

LordArthas · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

nitroburn · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 32

I am the person that filed the bug report...I think it is portage's grub-static is messed up...What I did, was use an ubuntu linux for amd64 and installed it and now have a working grub. Then I just reformated those partitions and installed gentoo on top. I have had grub stop at the loading screen like you said. I think whomever made the grub-static for portage made a mistake and grub also has problems.

jean-michel · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject: Something is definitely amiss

Something is definitely wrong with the current grub-static and Gentoo AMD64 release. I was able to get a system suffering EXACTLY the same frozen grub issues booting again by using an alternative 64bit build on an older set of partitions on the same box. Grub-static is either incompatible with some newer libraries (which shouldn't be the case if it is truly STATIC), or else a newer release of static is borked.

In any event, I've resorted to copying around old grub files.

Someone really needs to fix this. I posted a comment to the bug referenced above, but I don't have the authority to reopen the bug, which has been marked resolved. It is anything but resolved.
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Trevoke · Advocate Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 4099 Location: NY, NY

What's the difference between grub and grub-static?

I've installed GRUB and I have a RAID-1 (mirror), I installed GRUB on sd0 and sd1 and it boots fine (albeit after a long waiting time, I noticed).
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jean-michel · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

Whatever was broken has fixed itself.

I did a new install from scratch, and whatever was b0rked before has been fixed ... for now, at least! :-)

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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

What motherboard is this? I'm seeing similar behaviour on my nForce4.

viddy · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 2

I was having this exact problem - could not find a way to solve it.
The LILO binary worked like a charm

(Grub has never liked my S-ATA disks. It refuses to work with them.)

LordArthas · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:03 am Post subject:

Hi all!

I just installed Gentoo on a machine similar to the one on which GRUB does not work (it has SATA disks, but it's a 32 bit AMD Athlon system instead of 64). No problem at all, but on my AMD 64 GRUB always refused to work. However, I still have to try a newer version of GRUB: I'll do that when I've got some time to mess my system up, and I'll report here. ;-)

Michele.

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I had similar problems with grub freezing. It would show the menu and then hardlock the system. (Even the Caps Lock LED stopped responding) It only went away when I disabled "legacy usb" support in the bios. No idea why that would work... My system seems to be pretty picky. MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard here.
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LordArthas · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

Hi!

Anon5710 · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

that i do know .. but where do i need to put that binary in ?
And do i have to do an emerge lilo-bin than or something like that ?