Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
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) -- God bless the rich, the greedy and the corrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
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. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
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.

[gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-22 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
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