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rhodyne
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 Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:42 am Post subject: Stopping at a grub console...manual load boots ok |
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I have put the 1.4 rc1 on my VIA Epia 800.
Used i686 optimization and C3 proc in the kernel compile.
Everything works as it should on reboot except the boot itself.
It boots to the GRUB console. If I manually type in the root, kernel, and configfile locations it will load up to the menu and boot from there but that is the only way it will work.
At first I thought I had a problem in the grub.conf or the grub install but they work ok, just not automatically. Then I did a "find /boot/grub/stage1" to see where it was finding the stage1 file and it was finding 2 of them. Got rid of the one left if I umount'd /boot, still doesn't work right.
Now I'm at a loss. I prefer to use GRUB for the added security so want to avoid the "drop to LILO" option.
Any help would be appreciated.
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pjp
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Is there an error with automatic Grub? What is in your menu.lst file?
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rhodyne
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:22 am Post subject: |
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I'm using the grub.conf not menu.lst...but there are no errors, everything works as it should. I just have to manually kick the boot off.
I've done some different things on the grub console and have got it to boot using a single line of configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf.
This pops me to the normal grub menu and everything works like it should from that point.
My grub.conf looks like the one from the install instructions:
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timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Gentoo
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2 |
/dev/hda1 (hd0,0) is where /boot resides
/dev/hda2 (hd0,1) is where / resides
I even whacked the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=466 count=1. I thought I might have conflicting instances of grub since I had RH7.3 on it before. Then I re-ran setup (hd0) from the grub prompt again but it does the same thing.
No joy yet.
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rhodyne
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 4:46 am Post subject: |
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JOY!
I found after looking at every last detail that I have GRUB 0.90-r7 installed and a lot of people are talking about menu.lst for the older versions. I thought that with the latest (1.4 rc1) I would get the latest/greatest and so followed the install docs to the letter.
Once I noticed the old GRUB I made a link to grub.conf:
| Code: | | ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst |
And now all is well in the world.
The advantage of this fix is that once I emerge system/world with newer tweaks, I won't have to make changes to the grub config files to get it to work anymore.
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H-Dragon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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i have the very same problem...
i get to the >grub command every time i reboot and after telling grub
that the configfile could be found ':
configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st
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configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf
i have them both and they are identical.....
after one of these commands everything works fine... the interface loads and i can boot perfectly into win2k or gentoo
why can't grub remember where it's configfile is? or where does grub check????????????????????????????? |
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