maxim wexler schreef: >>And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, >>maxim (assuming you >>get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your >>menu? > > > no choice. After grub-install I get the > > Grub loading stage1.5 > Grub loading, please wait... > > message(white text,black bg). To get back to > Macroshaft I boot into a Win98 CD and run fdisk /mbr > > Ok, now I've got it. The menu doesn't load at all.
But your previous post as to formatting the /boot partition made me think of something.... I had problems like that some time ago, back when I first installed my first Gentoo. Basically what had happened was I got weird and unattributable errors due to my filesystem not being correctly formatted. It was supposed to be formatted, and files were installed to it and everything, but filesizes were being reported differently by different tools and things just didn't work properly. What I wound up doing was using qtparted to delete the filesystem and reformat it. Once the filesystem on the disk was the same as the filesystem that the disk thought it had, everything worked fine. Now, I seem to recall having heard that it is possible to delete and reformat a filesystem without deleting the partition (or damaging the files thereon), but I didn't know enough at the time to do that, so I just deleted the entire partition and recreated it. Since this is /boot, it won't be a tragedy to delete the partition, recreate, format it as ext2 from the start and reinstall grub. But maybe there's a way that you can just reformat the existing partition (again) as ext2, so that it "takes". You might still have to reinstall grub anyway, however at this point that seems like the least of your worries :-) . Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
