Grub wont boot?

Kage · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 14

Well Im almost there. I completed the installation but when my machine boots up gentoo wont load. It just flashes "GRUB loading stage1.5" on the screen real quick then causes the machine to reboot.Ive gone into my menu.lst file a bunch of times now and tried naming the drive a bunch of combinations but no luck. How do i find out what grub is looking for?

This is on a abit vp6 and the HD is attached to one of the HPT370 ports.
Could this be the problem? Ive got it attached to the port but its not in a raid configuration with another drive. Do I still need to go through hardware raid procedure decribed in the instructions? I just followed the regular procedure and the grub install part had no problem finding it and didnt give me any errors.But if this is the wrong way could someone let me know?

evert · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 2 Location: Namibia

I am assuming that grub gives you a command line where you can still enter stuff. Try putting in the same commands that you put into the menu.lst file. ( By the way, grub seems to have moved over to the grub.conf file for configs) Hunt around a bit untill you find where your kernel is hiding. you will *know* when you found it, as the reply from grub will be slightly different. the just type boot... after your system boots, just go modify your grub.conf file to the correct parameters that you discovered while poking around on the disks...

rac · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 5:06 am Post subject:

Is Why is my computer rebooting immediately on startup? relevant?
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