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JamieC · Guest

That's as far is it gets.

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GRUB Loading stage1.5.

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That's all I see when I try to boot my machine.

I have completely reinstalled, making certain to set things up as listed in the Install instructions. To the point of creating 3 partitions, /boot is ext2, /root is ext3, etc., etc.

I made sure to compile the kernel, and copy bzImage to /boot, and made sure that both ext2 and ext3 support were compiled in.

System: Gateway Solo 1150 laptop. Celeron 550, 6G HD, D-LINK 10/100 PCMCIA network adaptor.

Everything worked great during the install - no surprizes. All code was downloaded from the 'net as expected, with no compile failures (after I figured out you CANNOT turn off SMP support, or the kernel won't compile).

So... any ideas?

taskara · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 9:30 am Post subject:

grub doens't seem to like all systems, you might wanna try lilo

just emerge lilo

then cp /etc/lilo.conf.example /etc/lilo.conf

nano -w /etc/lilo.conf

make sure it's all pointing to the right place, save and exit

then from /etc run lilo

reboot

JamieC · Guest

Thanks. Using lilo did the trick... my system now boots up into Gentoo Linux as expected.

taskara · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:13 pm Post subject:

once again good ol' lilo comes to the rescue

glad to hear it's working.. now the fun continues