out of curiosity, if you type mount and confirm that /boot is NOT mounted, then you do an ls -alh /boot, is the grub subdirectory there still?
Your root and boot partitions are the same. /dev/hda1. They should be hda1 for boot, hda2 for swap and 3 for root (this is from memory) They will all be different though. On your fstab, the first 2 lines show hda1 being loaded as root, and as boot. That is incorrect. Ok, I read back through some of your previous posts. From the sound of it, you've made only a swap and a root partition. You don't have a boot partition. That is fine, but then the first line of your fstab should be removed. At this point, I'm starting to guess a bit, but I suspect you'll have a /boot and a /grub directory right off root. You'll need to move /grub to be a subdirectory of /boot. Now, when you did the root(hd0,0) and the setup(hd0) did you get any errors? When you restart, does the initial grub menu come up? Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Louie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Gentoo Grub help > Here is the fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 > noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 > noatime 0 0 > /dev/hda2 none swap > sw 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > noauto,ro 0 0 > > none /proc proc > defaults 0 0 > > none /dev/shm tmpfs > defaults 0 0 > ### End of fstab ### > > Yes it was a late night. Vacation can skew your schedule like that :-) > > > Shawn Grover wrote: > > > > You need to do something like this: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 /boot > > > > before you copy your image to the boot partition, and before you setup Grub. > > In your fstab file, the default is to NOT mount the /boot partition when the > > system comes up. So, if you don't do the mount first, then you are simply > > putting the files into a directory - not on the boot partition. > > > > (looks like you had a LATE night.... :D ) > > > > HTH > > > > Shawn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Louie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:49 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Gentoo Grub help > > > > So do I need to make a boot partition? I did the following: > > > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > grub> setup (hd0) > > > > Here is the grub.conf file: > > > > timeout 30 > > default 0 > > fallback 1 > > > > # Splash Image > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title GNU/Linux > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 > > > > # For installing GRUB into the hard disk > > title Install GRUB into the hard disk > > root (hd0,0) > > setup (hd0) > > > > # Change the colors. > > title Change the colors > > color light-green/brown blink-red/blue > > ### end of grub file ### > > > > Here is the /boot/ listing: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Aug 14 00:41 boot -> . > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1333181 Aug 21 02:46 bzImage > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 11:19 grub > > ### End of listing ### > > > > # /etc/mtab > > /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 > > ### end of mtab ### > > > > Was it correct copying the grub directory into /boot/? > > > > Shawn Grover wrote: > > > > > > Sounds like you forgot to mount the /boot partition before going through > > the > > > Grub setup. I've done this a couple of times when recompiling my kernel. > > > Posting your grub.conf file will help some, but I think the problem is in > > > how/when grub got installed. > > > > > > Shawn > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:34 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: (clug-talk) Gentoo Grub help > > > > > > 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 > >
