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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, yes, I suspect you got it. I'm trying with this.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, ok now. Formatted and reinstalled Windows. Booted with Gentoo live cd and reinstalled grub. Everything's ok now. Thanks for your assistance.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

****THIS HAS BEEN SOLVED***
For future reference, try removing the splash screen first. I did a lot of work, and that was the solution in the end.

Now I've got another problem.

This time I reinstalled Gentoo according to the manual with a /boot partition.

I set GRUB up like the manual said, and installed it into the MBR.

I set my time out to 3. When I booted the computer, instead of seeing a splash screen and options to choose what to boot to, it flashed some text that looked like the XP section of my grub.conf for a second (my default choice), and booted into it.

I thought my timeout might be too low. So I changed it to 10. Same thing, but this time I got a blank screen for longer than before.

Whats going on?

Thanks.

If you want to see my grub.conf, I could get that with (by getting, I mean transferring it to my FAT32 partition so I can copy and paste in windows): cp /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf /mnt/gentoo/windows/D/grub.conf

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the same Problem, after Updating portage and emerging Grub I have two Systems which only shows the prompt of grub but dosn't load the menu.

Code:

AstBill ~ # cd /boot
AstBill boot # ls -l
total 1544
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       1 Feb  3 20:57 boot -> .
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1559732 Feb  3 21:20 bzImage
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Feb  3 21:22 grub
drwx------  2 root root   12288 Feb  3 20:55 lost+found
AstBill boot # cd grub
AstBill grub # ls -l
total 332
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   7776 Feb  3 21:21 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   7504 Feb  3 21:21 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   6816 Feb  3 21:21 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     79 Feb  3 21:22 grub.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1624 Feb  3 21:21 grub.conf.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   6816 Feb  3 21:21 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   8320 Feb  3 21:21 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      9 Feb  3 21:21 menu.lst -> grub.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   7008 Feb  3 21:21 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   9216 Feb  3 21:21 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  33856 Feb  3 21:21 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    512 Feb  3 21:21 stage1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 108296 Feb  3 21:21 stage2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 108296 Feb  3 21:21 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   7156 Feb  3 21:21 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   6432 Feb  3 21:21 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   9256 Feb  3 21:21 xfs_stage1_5
AstBill grub #


Code:

AstBill grub # cat grub.conf
default 0
timeout 5

titel AstBill
root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda2
AstBill grub #


Code:

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /boot           ext3            noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2               /               ext3            noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3               none            swap            sw      0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro       0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0


Code:

AstBill ~ # equery list grub
[ Searching for package 'grub' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 (0)
AstBill ~ #


Even when I use configload /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.lst I get the prompt without a menu. Is this a Bug in the Portage??
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've search and can't find anything to fix my problem.

I'm trying to dual boot with CP, but I get this error message when I try to get into XP.

Code:
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable type


grub.conf

Code:

default 0
timeout 30

# splashimage=(hd2,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

# Gentoo Linux
title=Gentoo Linux
root(hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sdb3

# Windows XP
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


Any ideas?

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bug FOUND!!


You won't believe me but it was NANO Editor again...I absolutly hate this editor :twisted:

I delete my grub.conf file and installed vim and did grub.conf again this time with vi grub.conf

and guess what? My Menu is now showing up at boot.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Liquido wrote:
Bug FOUND!!

You won't believe me but it was NANO Editor again...I absolutly hate this editor :twisted:
I delete my grub.conf file and installed vim and did grub.conf again this time with vi grub.conf
and guess what? My Menu is now showing up at boot.


Liquido wrote:

Code:
AstBill grub # cat grub.conf
default 0
timeout 5

titel AstBill
root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda2
AstBill grub #



Hi.

I can't be sure, but I think it was more an "operator error"! :wink:
If you notice carefully, you had "titel" in your grub.conf file, instead of "title".
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Glass Casket.

Are you sure that you didn't try to install GRUB into (hd0,0), instead of (hd0)? Another user had a similar problem this past week and it ended up to be caused by that. If that is the case, you might try to use the bootfix command on the XP cd. If that doesn't work you may need to reinstall Windows.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi everybody. I'm new to Gentoo but not to Linux and I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my new laptop.

I go through the install just fine, but when I reboot, I get the following GRUB error:

root(sda0,0)
Error 23: Error while parsing number

Ideas? Thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bozemblem wrote:
Hi everybody. I'm new to Gentoo but not to Linux and I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my new laptop.

I go through the install just fine, but when I reboot, I get the following GRUB error:

root(sda0,0)
Error 23: Error while parsing number

Ideas? Thanks!


It should be (hd0,0) even if it is a SATA hard drive. And also, there should be a space between root and (hd0,0)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

omp wrote:
bozemblem wrote:
Hi everybody. I'm new to Gentoo but not to Linux and I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my new laptop.

I go through the install just fine, but when I reboot, I get the following GRUB error:

root(sda0,0)
Error 23: Error while parsing number

Ideas? Thanks!


It should be (hd0,0) even if it is a SATA hard drive. And also, there should be a space between root and (hd0,0)


this is a total n00b question but how do i alter that file?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi bozemblem.

You can either boot with the live-cd, mount the /boot partition and edit the file or you can use the GRUB editor feature and alter the config to boot. Then you need to edit the file. To use the command-line feature of GRUB, select the Gentoo entry and press 'e' on the GRUB boot menu. Then press 'e' for the line you need to alter. When you correct the entry, press 'b' to boot into Gentoo.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jmbsvicetto wrote:
Hi bozemblem.

You can either boot with the live-cd, mount the /boot partition and edit the file or you can use the GRUB editor feature and alter the config to boot. Then you need to edit the file. To use the command-line feature of GRUB, select the Gentoo entry and press 'e' on the GRUB boot menu. Then press 'e' for the line you need to alter. When you correct the entry, press 'b' to boot into Gentoo.



Thanks!! That solved that problem; on to more problems...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi for everyone!
Just got back to Gentoo (after leaving it for 3 months, mainly working reasons) and got one problem with grub which makes may hair even more gray.
Because I need to work while installing/compiling Gentoo I just installed Kubuntu on my /dev/hda, like this:
Code:
/dev/hda3       /               reiserfs defaults        0       1
/dev/hda1       /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda2       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hda5       /home/bzs       ext3    defaults        1       1

Everything went fine, so while working I planned to install Gentoo on my /dev/hdb (which was empty totally). So I created the fliesystem like in my fstab
Code:
/dev/hdb1               /boot           ext2            defaults,noatime       
1 2
/dev/hdb3               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/hdb2               none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/hdb4               /home           ext3            noatime         0 1

And chrooted, and installed Gentoo, genkerneled, and installed grub (manually):
Code:
grub
root (hd1,0)
setup(hd1)
quit

I set up my grub conf like this:
Code:
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux (nofbsplash)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb3 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r4

And after rebooting and setting the bios to boot from the second disk, strange things happened:
blank grub screen, and when hitting an enter it tried to boot with some borked characters showing on the screen, recognised the boot partition type, then told me an "Error 15".
It was pretty hard to edit the boot options (because of the borked characters), but I tried a lot of things. Edited the kernel and initrd line with backspace-ing then hitting tab to complete to check if i failed to copy the correct kernel and initrd names, but thes are completted via tab to the same name, so I tried to boot again, then the same error happened.
Next time i deleted the whole kernel name and when I hit tab, strange thing happened: it tried to complete to my ubuntu kernel. Then I tried by editing the kernel and initrd line like (hd0,0)/[tab] and both of them completed to the Gentoo initrd/kernel so I can boot into my fresh Gentoo system (and typing this in Konqueror). But why this happened?
I checked my current partitons, and I see, I has /dev/hdb1 as my gentoo /boot.
What did I wrong?
Thanks for any help, in advance.[/code]
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:42 pm    Post subject: No boot image? Reply with quote

This is the fist time I've had any problems whatever with grub. I've set up 50-100 machines with gentoo, and until this point never had an issue.

I"m setting up a VIA based k7 motherboard and I have finished installing gentoo. I merged grub and then went through the same setup steps I always do. But after a reboot, I keep getting DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM... blah blah blah

I've ticked the bootable flag in fdisk. I have reinstalled grub. I reformatted the partition as ext2 (I normally use ext3, but it really doesn't matter that much), I've run the grub installer more times than I can count. Nothing seems to make the system see the MBR for grub. Is this a known bug?

grub version 0.96

edit: and yes, I have checked my bood disk priority in BIOS too ;-)
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi zsoltika.

Your errors happened because you installed GRUB on the second hard disk and then chose to boot from it. GRUB calls hd0 to the first disk the BIOS sees. I believe that by setting the BIOS to boot from the second disk, it became hd0, instead of hd1 - that is why you were able to boot when using hd0. By the way, while you're testing, you should comment the splashimage line to avoid the garbling of text.
You should use a single /boot partition for all Linux systems. It would make things simpler, as you won't have to mess with the BIOS to select which OS to boot.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your answer Jorge,
I will check this out next Monday, @ my workplace (@home Gentoo "just" works besides my wife's XP).
BTW it will be one boot partiton as I'll get rid of Kubuntu (which worked well for me - but I love Gentoo).
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I finished installing, when i try to boot on cd or not, it just says GRUB like one million times and the whole screen is full of GRUB GRUB help please?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, looks like I'm another lost soul, so please help me:-)

The problem I'm having is that my computer boots with a single GRUB and nothing else. I've looked at the GRUB Error collection but no avail. I have two disks (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb). I don't intend to touch /dev/hdb.

Below is my partition table. I have /boot, swap, and /root.
Code:
#fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39813 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          63       31751+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              64        1056      500472   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            1057       39813    19533528   83  Linux


My fstab is below.
Code:
#cat /etc/fstab
(snip)
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1            /boot         ext3      defaults,noatime   1 2
/dev/hda3            /            reiserfs   noatime      0 1
/dev/hda2            none         swap      sw      0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0   /mnt/cdrom   auto      noauto,ro,user,utf8   0 0
#/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy   auto      noauto      0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc            /proc      proc      defaults   0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm            /dev/shm   tmpfs      nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0


And this is my grub.conf file. I'm not sure this is the problem since I can't reach the GRUB prompt yet.
Code:
#cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
#
# GRUB menu configuration file
#

# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1

# Splash image
# splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

# For booting Gentoo Linux
title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 udev video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@60
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1


I seem to be missing some trivial mistake somewhere. Any help would be appreciated:-0
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

darehanl,

your files seem ok.
Please provide a more detailed description of your problem. Also tell us how you installed GRUB into the MBR.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

suzukiman,

you should read the Gentoo GRUB error collection. The guide lists two possible causes for the problem, one related to the configuration of the disks in the BIOS and the other due to a bad reinstallation of GRUB.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi.
i have a quick question.
i have installed gentoo on a board with two bios raid controllers.
/boot and /swap are on one array while / is on the other:

Code:
/dev/mapper/isw_xxx1            /boot   
/dev/mapper/isw_xxx2            /swap
/dev/mapper/isw_xxx3            /xp

/dev/mapper/sil_xxx1            /


i used this for grub configuration:

Code:
/sbin/grub --device-map=/dev/null
grub> device (hd0,0) /dev/mapper/isw_xxx1
grub> device (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_xxx
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0,0)


do i need to do something different when configuring grub for this partition scheme?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jmbsvicetto. Sorry, been busy for a while. I used genkernel to build my kernel, and used grub-install for installing GRUB.

Code:
#cat /etc/mtab
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /newroot tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /newroot/mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/loop/0 /newroot/mnt/livecd squashfs ro 0 0
proc /newroot/proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /newroot/sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /newroot/dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /newroot/dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /newroot/mnt/livecd/lib/firmware tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /newroot/mnt/livecd/usr/portage tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /newroot/proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0

#cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)   /dev/hda
(hd1)   /dev/hdb

#grub-install /dev/hda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0)   /dev/hda
(hd1)   /dev/hdb


What happens is that just after I boot, I should be seeing the GRUB menu. However, I only get to see a single word
Code:
GRUB

and that's it. No error messages, no infinite GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, etc.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, this problem made me look again into the Gentoo GRUB error collection.
I would suggest that you re-emerge GRUB, probably using an empty CFLAGS "CFLAGS="" emerge -av grub", and then reinstall it into the MBR. If that doesn't work, make sure that you have your disk to manual settings, instead of automatic settings in the BIOS and that your disk is the first boot device in the BIOS.
If after trying these options you still have the same problem, let us know. As a last resort, you can always try LILO - but only as a last resort! :wink:
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I installed another HD (a 250G WD) as a slave on the same IDE slot. Did an archive move of gentoo to it, chrooted and installed grub. This system allows one to select any of the 4 HD on the mobo IDE channel to boot from, so I selected IDE1 (0 based index) and rebooted. It booted fine. I guess something is wrong with the other HD, but I can't be certain. I created the HD partitions with the same cable I found trouble with before, so it is possible that something in the partition table was corrupted, although it is impossible to be certain. I'll remake the entire partition table next I suppose. Not a grub error though obviously, no matter what it was.
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