Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1
On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to the hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. It claims to install fine and during boot will load grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of loading stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the console font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not certain if anything else has. It will boot, and appears to function but the font is messed up. Has anyone else had issues with the particular Dell and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this thing, but if I can't oh well. -brian FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us do use it as opposed to FreeBSD's bootmanager. Please post the steps you use to install grub and the output those steps give you, and your grub.conf. -Garrett #menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 fallback 1 #password --md5 some kind of password that is encypted splashimage (fd0)/boot/grub/opt/smurffed.xpm.gz title BSD root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title Hold the Phone halt title Reset me reboot title Floppy Boot lock root (fd0) chainloader #EOF menu.lst here is my menu.lst off my grub install floppy. this was created by building grub 0.97 from ports on my HP Kayak. the floppy was then prepared as below: fdformat /dev/fd0 newfs -O1 -n /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub/opt I then copied the grub files from the /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd if memory serves me correct to the /mnt/boot/grub folder. then copied in my splashimages, then prepared menu.lst as described. I then ran grub and setup the floppy to boot grub. now to install on a system I: mkdir -p /boot/grub/opt mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp -R /mnt/boot/grub /boot/grub change menu.lst as required to reference hardrives or different boot options like a windows partition or linux or whatever needs to be started up. boot the system with the floppy and go to grub console. make sure I can find /boot/grub/menu.lst then... root (hd0,0,a) # or whatever setup (hd0) # again depends and usually I take the floppy out, reboot, and grub asks me what I want to boot up. as far as the exact output from grub I don't know, but it didn't give any errors. it just said: checking for /boot/grub/menu.lst found installing stage1 success installing stage1_5 success installing stage2. success the typical everything is ok message. I have heard in later reading that a missing splashimage can mess things up, I will have to make sure I remembered to change the root for the image to the harddrive. But I have also read that this just happens sometimes with grub and certain machines. this is the only time I've seen it happen. I personally love me some grub. it just makes things easier in my world; at least usually. -brian Ok, it seems like your installation process at least is ok; perhaps the location of the installed grub is incorrect though. Could you do the following? 1. Run fdisk and verify that the partition you actually have your root installed on is the first one. 2. Replace all references to just / (root) in all partition names to the proper device name, plus root, e.g.: root (hd0,0,a) kernel (hd0,0,a)/boot/loader I know it seems a bit redundant, but it's saved me from some issues with installing grub on my linux box. 3. Remove the splashedimage reference. It's referring to your floppy and if the floppy isn't there I could see some possible issues occurring with booting grub, as you mentioned earlier in the email. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to the hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. It claims to install fine and during boot will load grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of loading stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the console font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not certain if anything else has. It will boot, and appears to function but the font is messed up. Has anyone else had issues with the particular Dell and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this thing, but if I can't oh well. -brian FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us do use it as opposed to FreeBSD's bootmanager. Please post the steps you use to install grub and the output those steps give you, and your grub.conf. -Garrett #menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 fallback 1 #password --md5 some kind of password that is encypted splashimage (fd0)/boot/grub/opt/smurffed.xpm.gz title BSD root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title Hold the Phone halt title Reset me reboot title Floppy Boot lock root (fd0) chainloader #EOF menu.lst here is my menu.lst off my grub install floppy. this was created by building grub 0.97 from ports on my HP Kayak. the floppy was then prepared as below: fdformat /dev/fd0 newfs -O1 -n /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub/opt I then copied the grub files from the /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd if memory serves me correct to the /mnt/boot/grub folder. then copied in my splashimages, then prepared menu.lst as described. I then ran grub and setup the floppy to boot grub. now to install on a system I: mkdir -p /boot/grub/opt mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp -R /mnt/boot/grub /boot/grub change menu.lst as required to reference hardrives or different boot options like a windows partition or linux or whatever needs to be started up. boot the system with the floppy and go to grub console. make sure I can find /boot/grub/menu.lst then... root (hd0,0,a) # or whatever setup (hd0) # again depends and usually I take the floppy out, reboot, and grub asks me what I want to boot up. as far as the exact output from grub I don't know, but it didn't give any errors. it just said: checking for /boot/grub/menu.lst found installing stage1 success installing stage1_5 success installing stage2. success the typical everything is ok message. I have heard in later reading that a missing splashimage can mess things up, I will have to make sure I remembered to change the root for the image to the harddrive. But I have also read that this just happens sometimes with grub and certain machines. this is the only time I've seen it happen. I personally love me some grub. it just makes things easier in my world; at least usually. -brian Ok, it seems like your installation process at least is ok; perhaps the location of the installed grub is incorrect though. Could you do the following? 1.Run fdisk and verify that the partition you actually have your root installed on is the first one. 2.Replace all references to just / (root) in all partition names to the proper device name, plus root, e.g.: root (hd0,0,a) kernel (hd0,0,a)/boot/loader I know it seems a bit redundant, but it's saved me from some issues with installing grub on my linux box. 3.Remove the splashedimage reference. It's referring to your floppy and if the floppy isn't there I could see some possible issues occurring with booting grub, as you mentioned earlier in the email. -Garrett I'll give this a whirl and report back as to what happens, but I think I just have one of the machines that grub just doesn't like very much. Its just a good thing it happened to be the one machine I have that will never see anything but BSD on it. Like I said GRUB was just to put an inappropriate splash screen up to tick off my friends should they ever turn the thing on with a monitor plugged into it... That being said it's still annoying when things don't work out the way you want. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1
backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to the hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. It claims to install fine and during boot will load grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of loading stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the console font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not certain if anything else has. It will boot, and appears to function but the font is messed up. Has anyone else had issues with the particular Dell and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this thing, but if I can't oh well. -brian FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us do use it as opposed to FreeBSD's bootmanager. Please post the steps you use to install grub and the output those steps give you, and your grub.conf. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to the hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. It claims to install fine and during boot will load grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of loading stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the console font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not certain if anything else has. It will boot, and appears to function but the font is messed up. Has anyone else had issues with the particular Dell and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this thing, but if I can't oh well. -brian FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us do use it as opposed to FreeBSD's bootmanager. Please post the steps you use to install grub and the output those steps give you, and your grub.conf. -Garret #menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 fallback 1 #password --md5 some kind of password that is encypted splashimage (fd0)/boot/grub/opt/smurffed.xpm.gz title BSD root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title Hold the Phone halt title Reset me reboot title Floppy Boot lock root (fd0) chainloader #EOF menu.lst here is my menu.lst off my grub install floppy. this was created by building grub 0.97 from ports on my HP Kayak. the floppy was then prepared as below: fdformat /dev/fd0 newfs -O1 -n /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub/opt I then copied the grub files from the /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd if memory serves me correct to the /mnt/boot/grub folder. then copied in my splashimages, then prepared menu.lst as described. I then ran grub and setup the floppy to boot grub. now to install on a system I: mkdir -p /boot/grub/opt mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp -R /mnt/boot/grub /boot/grub change menu.lst as required to reference hardrives or different boot options like a windows partition or linux or whatever needs to be started up. boot the system with the floppy and go to grub console. make sure I can find /boot/grub/menu.lst then... root (hd0,0,a) # or whatever setup (hd0) # again depends and usually I take the floppy out, reboot, and grub asks me what I want to boot up. as far as the exact output from grub I don't know, but it didn't give any errors. it just said: checking for /boot/grub/menu.lst found installing stage1 success installing stage1_5 success installing stage2. success the typical everything is ok message. I have heard in later reading that a missing splashimage can mess things up, I will have to make sure I remembered to change the root for the image to the harddrive. But I have also read that this just happens sometimes with grub and certain machines. this is the only time I've seen it happen. I personally love me some grub. it just makes things easier in my world; at least usually. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
