I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor.
I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4, and maps within Linux to /dev/sda. I also have two other parallel IDE dard drives, connected via a raid controller (though not configured for RAID) to Drive numbers 0 and 3 on the RAID controller. These drives map to hde and hdh respectively, with a DVD writer mapping to both /dev/hda and /dev/dvdrw. The bios is configured to boot first from the DVD (primary IDE master) then from the 250GB SATA hard drive. swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 I am running genkernel After I configure grub, and install grub to the mbr using grub-install, the reboot fails, with GRUB doing nothing but display the text 'GRUB'. Evidently, either I am doing something wrong at the grub-install stage, or there is a problem with grub. I have had a similar lack of success with Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva installs (same problem). The boot partition is an ext3 filesystem My grub.conf file is as follows: default=0 timeout=30 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors. The device.map file contains the following (hd0) /dev/sda This file was generated by the fedora installation (possibly the source of the problem?). Update: >After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck >/dev/sda >That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2 > >The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now >(fd0) /dev/fd0 >(hd0) /dev/hde >(hd1) /dev/hdh >(hd2) /dev/sda > >I edited the grub.conf file so that the splash image and root lines reference >(hd2,5), then re-ran grub-install /dev/sda. Still no joy. On boot up, the >screen stays blank for a while, then every 10 seconds or so, it adds another " >GRUB" text element to the screen. No sign of any boot-up activity. Any suggestions gratefully received, as I'm trying to get this system working by the end of the weekend. Thanks in advance Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
