Grub Error Collection [Part 8] [POST GRUB QUESTIONS HERE!]

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

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.
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jordanwb · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

cairo · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

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

Moriah · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject:

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. :?:

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Leon_UK · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

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

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject:

Leon_UK,

The problem is in your splashimage line in grub.conf.

The kernel is not yet loaded, so its in the clear.
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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410