I had a lot of trouble getting grub to work on Gentoo, but worked
through it. The Gentoo vanilla install has three (not two)
partitions -- / /boot and /swap. /boot is not normally mounted.
Post the contents of your mtab file (probably /etc/mtab) and your
grub.conf file and we'll have a look.
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Keith
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:33:56AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all, I've just spent the last little while installing Gentoo and have ran into
> a little snag. I'm not very formilar with grub or the details of the boot process
> so bare with me. After I install gentoo and reboot the computer I get the following
> output:
> GRUB hard disk error
>
> I've gone through the installation manual and looked to google to find a solution
> but couldn't diagnose the problem. I've complied the kernel and copied the bzImage
> to the /boot directory on /dev/hda1 and installed grub as my bootloader. I have two
> partitions
>
> /dev/hda1 >> /
> /dev/hda2 >> swap
>
> I've set /dev/hda1 to be bootable using cfdisk.
> One odd thing I noticed was that when I installed grub, /grub/ was created rather
> than /boot/grub/ as mentioned in all the gentoo examples I've seen. I've tried
> linking to the /grub/ directory and even copied the directory recursivly into the
> /boot/ directory but the same problem exists. I'm out of ideas here and any help is
> apprieciated. Thx.
>
> Jason
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