Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub --Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist-- grub root (hd2,0) --If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-- grub setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened: Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec with: Grub loading, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub --Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist-- grub root (hd2,0) --If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-- grub setup (hd0) --This will

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub --Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist-- grub root (hd2,0) --If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-- grub setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come from Grub loading Stage1.5 to Grub loading, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each and every device where a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR first but that didn't help. Right, have you checked your device.map to see if there's anything untoward in there? (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened: Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec with: Grub loading, please wait ... Since that is the moment when Grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:11:01 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian Huh, how

[gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come from Grub loading Stage1.5 to Grub loading, please wait... and then another 10sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not sure what this does - can you