On 6/13/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin wrote: > > >On 6/13/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Colin wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Okay, I tried that. No dice. I tried removing all occurences of > >>>/boot in case it didn't like symlinks, but that didn't work either. > >>> > >>> > >>Well, I didn't expect to find any 'dice' here.....maybe some error > >>output or at least a better description (command failed, same reboot > >>problem, ...?) ;-> > >> > >> > > > >No dice = no luck. It's not a very common phrase, at least not where I live. > > > > > > Actually, I got the reference...I was just being a bit condescending > about the lack of information in that phrase. Forgive me.
No problem. Besides, a lot of people on this list don't have English as their first language. It's good to point out idioms anyway. > >Anyway, the same problem is still here. When the BIOS gives GRUB > >control, it shows a message that it's loading stage 1.5. And then, > >almost instantly, the system reboots. I don't know if stage 1.5 loads > >or not. I don't suppose there's a way to recompile it to show > >debugging output? > > Well, the "loading stage 1.5" message comes *from* the stage 1.5, and I > think it is pretty much impossible for that to fail to load since it is > embedded in the space between the MBR and the first partition and block > mapped. > > More likely is that grub gets confused trying to talk to the RAID BIOS, > and either cannot decipher the ext2 filesystem to find the stage2, or > loads what it thinks is the stage2 but turns out to be garbage that > causes the reboot. > > One remaining possiblity here: try renaming /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 to > e2fs_stage1_5.sav. Then run: > > # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map > grub> root (hd0,0) > ... > grub> setup (hd0) > ... > grub> quit > ... > > The setup command should show '"e2fs_stage1_5" exists...no'. But the > install command should still show "succeeded" at the end. If that all > looks good, try rebooting. It worked! One would think stage1.5 would be an integral step between 1 and 2, but apparently now. Gentoo works! (And Windows does too...) I got a lot of errors while booting Gentoo, so I've still got a few bugs to work out. Thanks, guys. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
