>> I mounted sda2 and installed. Now I cannot get GRUB to launch sda2. > > The error number would be helpful,
17: unable to mount partition > as would the contents of menu.lst. Attached (menu.lst points to grub.conf). I also attached the file called device.map that I found in the grub folder. >> The bootsector grub is installed on is hda. > > It's probably a drive numbering issue, with GRUB numbering the drives > differently to how you expect. Drop to a GRUB shell and do > "find /boot/vmlinuz" (or wherever your kernel is) to see what GRUB calls > your SATA drive. I'd expect it to be (hd1) but that depends on the BIOS > ordering. Running "find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r8" Produces 15: unable to find file However: localhost ~ # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/floppy/ localhost ~ # ls /mnt/floppy/boot/ boot config config-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 grub kernel.current kernel.old System.map System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Also, the floppy seeks for some reason when running find despite not being in the "device.map" file that I found. It is supposed to? Thanks, Neil Leathers > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Drive not ready: (R)etry (G)o to Impulse (C)all Engineering Err engineering... could you you get that drive online?
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