Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-09 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-09-09 11:30:55 +0200 (Fri, Sep), capsel wrote: > grub hangs while booting and there are no errors when I install it on > mbr (BIOS supports only mbr booting). Excuse me, but could you describe what EXACTLY you can see on screen before GRUB hangs? -- No virus found in this outgoing messag

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-09 Thread capsel
> Re-emerge and re-install Grub. If Grub hangs when you try to install > it, which I assume is what is happening, then you can try starting as: # > grub --no-floppy, to see if it works. Grub hanging basically implies > that there's a hardware hick up of some sort. > > If Lilo works fine regardle

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-09 Thread capsel
> Ok, now we're talking. When you enter Grub this way it doesn't care > about an existing configuration - so IMHO no problem there. Here's what > I would do: > > 1. Check if top shows reasonable results - if not step 3 > 2. Re-emerge grub - if that doesn't help - step 3 > 3. memtest86 for a day >

RE: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Heinz Sporn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 September 2005 07:19 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps > [snip] > Ok, now we're talking. When you enter Gru

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-08 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2005, 20:20 +0200 schrieb capsel: > current: > hda1 swap > hda2 reiserfs / > ---previous1--- > hda1 ext2 /boot > hda2 reiserfs / > hda3 swap > ---previous2--- > hda1 swap > hda2 ext2 /boot > hda3 reiserfs / > > swap is 258MB, /boot is about 24MB, / is rest of disk which is

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-08 Thread capsel
current: hda1 swap hda2 reiserfs / ---previous1--- hda1 ext2 /boot hda2 reiserfs / hda3 swap ---previous2--- hda1 swap hda2 ext2 /boot hda3 reiserfs / swap is 258MB, /boot is about 24MB, / is rest of disk which is 10GB Should I post output of echo -ne "p\nq\n" | fdisk /dev/hda? device map: (fd0)

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! grub stops, only hard reset helps

2005-09-08 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2005, 11:44 +0200 schrieb capsel: > It is second time i'm posting about this problem on this group, maybe > I did it wrong last time... Maybe. But maybe it's just because you didn't provide ANY piece of information like grub.conf, disk/partition layout, etc. etc. > > so