Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:00:26 + (UTC), James wrote: The ide disk setup is very simple: fdisk /dev/hda # Device BootStartEnd Blocks Id System # /dev/hda1 * 1 50 401593+ 83 Linux # /dev/hda2 51 185 1084387+ 82 Linux swap # /dev/hda3 * 186 243418065092+

[gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread James
Hello, I seem to be having trouble installing grub on i586 systems. What I use is the install-x86-minmal-2006.0.iso cd to boot the system and follow the hadbook install guide. But I use the stage3 tarfile: stage3-i586-2006.1.tar.bz2 Everything runs fine until I try to reboot off the hard

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello James, Googling mostly reveals suggestions about file system being corrupt. I ran file system chekcs (reiserfsck) per previous instuctions and /boot and / come back clean and happy. If you must use reiserfs on /boot (it's a complete waste of space, ext2 is more sensible), you must

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 23 August 2007 19:14:12 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello James, Googling mostly reveals suggestions about file system being corrupt. I ran file system chekcs (reiserfsck) per previous instuctions and /boot and / come back clean and happy. If you must use reiserfs on /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Florian Philipp, If you must use reiserfs on /boot (it's a complete waste of space, ext2 is more sensible), you must mount it with the notail option. GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. You do not only need to mount it with notail, you need to write all

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. Huh? How is this machine able to boot then? Here /boot isn't a separate partition, but just a subdir of /, which is mounted without notail, and has been so for years. # mount | grep / /dev/hda9 on / type

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Benno Schulenberg, GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. Huh? How is this machine able to boot then? Here /boot isn't a separate partition, but just a subdir of /, which is mounted without notail, and has been so for years. As Volker said, maybe things

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Sarpy Sam
On 8/23/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I seem to be having trouble installing grub on i586 systems. What I use is the install-x86-minmal-2006.0.iso cd to boot the system and follow the hadbook install guide. But I use the stage3 tarfile: stage3-i586-2006.1.tar.bz2 Everything