Hi!
Ol' GRUB can be a nasty little fellow. Ok let's see:
You tried to install GRUB to /dev/hda. During the installation GRUB
needs access to /boot since it puts its configuration files
into /boot/grub. Your fstab lists /dev/hda1 (where /boot resides) as
noauto. Did you really mount it before you ran setup?
An alternative way to install grub:
grub-install /dev/hda --root-directory=<boot-directory> -- recheck
If in your scenario the mount point for /dev/hda1 is /mnt/gentoo than
the correct command would be:
grub-install /dev/hda --root-directory=/mnt/gentoo -- recheck
Regards
spox
Am Sonntag, den 27.02.2005, 01:13 -0500 schrieb J. Patrick Campbell:
> i've been fighting this new install for 2 days now.
> i've tried grub and lilo.
> grub just scrolls 'GRUB' down the screen, no matter what do.
> lilo prints 02 about 30 times and stops
> i've tried 2 hard drives in this machine which was previously running XP.
> it's a p4 1.7ghz with 512mb ram
>
> here's my grub.conf
>
> default 0
> timeout 4
>
> title Gentoo Linux 2.6.10r6
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda3
>
> here's my /etc/fstab
>
> # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>
> <dump/pass>
>
> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime
> 1 1
> /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime
> 0 0
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw
> 0 0
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
> 0 0
> #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto
> 0 0
>
> # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
>
> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> # use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
>
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> 0 0
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> i boot from livecd 2004.3
> i mount root, boot, proc, turn on swap and chroot.
> then i run grub
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> this runs ok with no errors.
> on reboot it just scrolls GRUB.
>
> i'm stuck!
> thanks,
>
> ~P
>
>
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