I have the following hardware:
Soyo Mother board with an athlon-XP 2500 and 512 meg of ram with a
Western Digital 7200rpm 120gig hard drive. The Soyo board has the via
chipset with onboard everything.
The hard drive hda was partitioned with cfdisk as follows:
/dev/hda1 boot 1gig
/dev/hda2 swap 1.5 gig
/dev/hda3 root 4gig
the rest was left unpatitioned.
filesystem as follows:
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 and the same /dev/hda3
mkswap /dev/hda2
swapon /dev/hda2
The installation of gentoo went well.
I use a stage3 for athlon-xp
/etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="alsa cdr gimp -libg e100 acl X and so on.......... "
/boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=MY own Gentoo Linux 2.6.29-r14
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r14 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.6.29-gentoo-r14
The problem is when I boot the system I get the following error:
Stage 1.5
Error 2
and the system hangs.
According to the internet this means the boot disk was not recognized.
These are my attemtps to fix the problem.
1. erase the mbr with dd and remount partitions and redo the grub.conf
and grub-install.
2. lowlevel drive and redo the gentoo install
3. change out the drive and redo the install
4. lowlevel drive and use stage3 for i686 instead ot the athlon-xp and
2.4 instead of 2.6 kernel
All these produce the same results. I am not sure what I have done
wrong or how the hardware may cause the problem.
Can someone help.
