On Friday, 23 March 2018 22:03:45 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com
wrote:
> I appreciate the pointers. however it also said that it couldn't embed
> grub. I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition
You can install grub in the MBR of a disk, or in the boot record of a
sorry, that should be "I believer my error was installing it to the boot
partition and/or the fact that a different (64b vs 32b) grub, i.e. different
versions of grub and likely different revisions."
mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist)
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I appreciate the pointers. however it also said that it couldn't embed grub.
I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition and/or the fact
that a different (64b vs 32b). unfortunately i did mess it up enough that grub
went to the rescue/command line when i tried to reboot.
On Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:57:31 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com
wrote:
> When I run "grub-install/dev/boot" (following the manual) I i get the error
> "grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB for /dev/boot.
You have typed no space between the command 'grub-install' and the device.
When I run "grub-install/dev/boot" (following the manual) I i get the error
"grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB for /dev/boot. Check your device map"
I looked at the /boot partition and there is no device map.
I'm installing gentoo running debian. I have another os so the boot
: Oct 29, 2006 10:48 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen,
repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text.
Hmm, GRUB isn't very
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is
top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped.
Jeff
Perhaps simplifying
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6
[snip]
My grub.conf file is as follows:
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,5)
kernel
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Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6
[snip]
My grub.conf file is as follows:
default=0
timeout=30
PS: The /boot/grub/devices.map presently contains
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/hde
(hd2) /dev/hdh
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:55 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
Hi Richard,
The full
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Richard,
The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf
file per your instructions was
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes
Checking if
to the shop :-/
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 29, 2006 6:27 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Richard,
The full output from running your suggested command
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install.
If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll
take the computer back to the shop :-/
It seems to me that bios and grub have different
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is top of the
hard drive order list, and I'm stumped.
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 29, 2006 8:06 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is
top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped.
Jeff
Perhaps simplifying the environment might help diagnose the problem.
Have you considered
I can't remember - is grub trying to boot off the RAID? I found grub couldn't
handle my SCSI RAID and when I checked it was a known issue?
On Sunday October 29 2006 21:14, David Relson wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The Bios drive order appears
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen,
repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text.
Hmm, GRUB isn't very informative. That particular string should
only be printed once when the stage1 loader (the part
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