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The_Bell
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:04 pm    Post subject: GRUB hangs on stage 1.5 Reply with quote

I have installed gentoo in my laptop. I've not made different partitions for / and /boot so they're the same. I compiled the kernel myself (not using genkernel).

I have / in an extended FS in /dev/hda2

I have windows in /dev/hda1 (NTFS)

I wanted grub to load both OS so I installed it in the MBR as follows:

Code:

grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)


The grub told me it found the /boot/grub necessary files and it was succesfully installed into the MBR.

Here's my /boot/grub/grub.conf file

Code:

timeout 15
default 1

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2 vga=792

title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1


Well actually when I boot my machine I can see in the screen:
Code:

Grub Loading stage 1.5

Loading grub...

and it hangs, without telling me any error message nor number. I can reboot with Ctrl + Alt + Supr but it won't boot anything.

I have tried to boot with my boot disk and entering the parameters from the grub.conf manually and linux and windows boot perfectly, so the configuration file seems to be ok.

Anyone knows where the problem could be?

For giving more information (don't know if it's important or not) the /dev/hda2 (my /) partition is the only one marked with the bootable flag when listing the drives in fdisk. Should I put the bootable flag anywhere else? Don't know what else could be causing this problem.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:21 pm    Post subject: bracket? Reply with quote

Code:

kernel (hd0,1)/boot(bzImage root=/dev/hda3 vga=792


Is the bracket between boot and bzImage just a mistype in the forum? If not, that could be the cause of the problem. My grub.conf looks like this:

Code:

title  Gentoo Linux 1.4 2.4.22-ck2 Kernel
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2


Did you mean to put /dev/hda3 as your root fs, when you say you installed linux on /dev/hda2?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah it's a mistake in the post sorry it's fixed now.

The problem persists :(
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey i fixed the problem. It seems I had the floppy to boot first on my bios that the hard drive and grub does not like to be "started" if you have tried to read from floppy first.

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