Hi Richard, The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf file per your instructions was
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage_1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. I still have the same response when I try to reboot :-( Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 > >[snip] > >> 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 > >You have a separate /boot partition, so you should reference things on >*that* partition. So your grub.conf should be: > >default=0 >timeout=30 >splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 > kernel (hd0,0)/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 (hd0,0)/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 is correct if the BIOS is setup to boot from the SATA drive >before any IDE hard disks. > >I never really liked grub-install. Try: > >cat << EOF | grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map >root (hd0,0) >setup (hd0) >EOF > >The most important line from the above is one that looks like this: > >Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p >(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded > >If you don't see this, post what you do see. > >-Richard >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
