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

2005-09-09 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 10GB

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 Grub this way it doesn't care about

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 I

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 regardless

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

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 the

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)