On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:38, Ben Sparks wrote:
> I know the bootloader question has been beat to death and I have looked
> every where that I know of to find an answer, but no dice...yet.
> Anyway,  I'm stuck using a boot disk to load gentoo.  First off gentoo
> is installed on hdb with hdb1 being /boot, hdb5 / , hdb6 /swap, & hdb7
> /home.  Here is my grub.conf file:
>
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd1,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title=Gentoo
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel (hd1,0) /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb5
>
> and when I ran "grub" I typed
>
> root (hd1,0)
>
> setup (hd1,0)

SHOULD BE "setup (hd0)"

>
>
> I thought this was right....? no.  I don't get a cool splash screen only
> a plain grub boot screen that gives an error when trying to boot, so I
> revert to using my trusty boot disk :)  Does anyone have a suggestion
> for my delimma?  Also, one extra note, when I get to the grub boot scren
> (the one that gives errors) it says it's booting from a FAT formatted
> drive?...huh, wha...I know I formated /boot with ext2.  I'm just
> baffeled.  Thanks


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