Hi,
On 2/27/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/26/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > You are installing grub to an IDE device. Is that how you normally
> > address that device? It might be a SATA drive
>
> The device that I am installing grub to is a IDE device. So the
> addressing should be ok. It is also mounted as /dev/hdaXY.
OK, that's all fine then
> > What is the contents of your device.map file? I've seen that cause
> > grub to search endlessly for a device that isn't there
>
> As yesterday, I don't have my notebook at hand. I will check tonight.
> What should be the content of device.map? Is it generated by grub?
With your one and only drive it will look like this:
(hd0) /dev/hda
It describes a mapping between linux disk devices and what grub will
call them.
Who generates this file? Grub, default from Gentoo?
I just thought of something else: when you run grub-install, are you
doing it from a properly booted system, from inside a chroot, from a
rescue disk (where your gentoo filesystem is mounted somewhere), or a
different environment altogether?
I am following the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. So I run the
installation cd, and call grub-install from within the chroot
environment (I work remotely using a ssh conection to the installation
machine)
--
Cheers,
Marco.
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