Marco Schuler napisał(a):
Hi all,
after using other distributions for years I finally decided to go with
gentto to have to most flexibility. So here I am :-)
I got trough the gentoo installation up to the point of installing
grub. After the command 'grub-install /dev/hda' my machine hangs
displaying the following meassage:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time
I already searched the net to find a solution. The only thing I could
find was on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml
The comment on my problem:
One reported cause was an exotic configuration of disk devices, like
ultra/non-ultra DMA disks on one cable.
I am installing on my notebook (only one HD) so the hint above did not
help me very much...
Any hint or tips? Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi,
Do you have floppy drive? I am not sure what was actuall message of
grub while trying to probe non-existent floppy drive but try running it
with --no-floppy switch. I've seen broken grub-install scripts that did
not respect this though. If so, then your only option is to try to
install grub manually by using 'grub' command (search the web for details).
Cheers,
Radek.
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