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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54244 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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cairo,
Welcome to Gentoo.
It looks like as you have two drives, you have left the Windows bootloader on the windows drive and either not installed grub to any MBR at all, or installed it to the MBR of the linux drive. You have then forgotten to tell the BIOS to boot from the linux drive, so windows boots as it always did. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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jordanwb l33t
Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 642 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | jordanwb,
The file named *exactly* linux-2.6.26 is not found on root (hd0,4) (/dev/sda5 ?) |
Thanks I spelt linux wrong (I spelt in linix in the grub.conf) |
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cairo n00b
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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thanks kalos, im able to boot into gentoo now, but my grub.conf slightly different with what you have shown me,
for hardisk, i still use back hdx,instead of sdx, because when i mount sdx hardisk, device not exist, but when i mount hdx hardisk, it works, maybe my hardisk is an old hardisk.
anyways, ur guide has helped me out from hot water |
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Moriah Advocate
Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 2365 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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NEW PROBLEM
grub menu not showing and fonts messed up during boot
Since I applied the most recent update to my machines, some of them have a new problem that seems to be grub related. The machines boot up OK, but I cannot see the grub menu that lets me choose what to boot, and when the actual kernel starts to boot, the fonts are all messed up, as if the character generator table selected in the BIOS was bad or something. After the boot sequence applies the user-chosen font (about halfway thru the booting process), POOF! Everything becomes legible.
Since it does this on most, but not all of my machines, and I have several different types, I am thinking that some BIOS or video BIOS ROMs might have more character generator tables than others, and the grub maintainers choose to use one not all my boxes support.
Should I just lock in an earlier version of grub, or is there a GOOD REASON to use the latest version -- like security, etc. _________________ The MyWord KJV Bible tool is at http://www.elilabs.com/~myword
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Leon_UK Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 128 Location: London
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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am i right in thinking the grub menu is there, its just garbled, as you said it still boots, im guessing via the default time in grub.conf
so far i would say its a frambuffer problem, do you have kernel support for any framebuffer and have you added anything to the command after the kernel in grub.conf
using the gentoo handbooks refrence
Code: | vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap | vesa vga requires
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Device Drivers --->
Graphics Support --->
[*] VESA VGA graphics support
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Code: | video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85 | uvesafb requires
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Device Drivers --->
Graphics Support --->
<*> Userspace VESA VGA graphics support
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I was thinking maybe it was a case of the module not being loaded untill that point when it kind of snaps back, but it may just be something simple like you lost your splah.xpm.gz after updating if thats the case Code: | emerge -av grub-splashes |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54244 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Leon_UK,
The problem is in your splashimage line in grub.conf.
The kernel is not yet loaded, so its in the clear. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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desultory Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Moriah wrote: | NEW PROBLEM
grub menu not showing and fonts messed up during boot | Not so new.
Locked, continued elsewhere. -- desultory |
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