I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:58:32 -0500, Dave V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I just put together a fresh Gentoo System on my laptop. This is the 5th-6th > (starting to lose count) system that I've set up from stage1 and I think I've > finally got it all down. I decided to try JFS instead of ext3 and all is fine > except that I can't boot with GRUB. > > I get > # GRUB Loading stage1.5. > # > # > # GRUB loading, please wait... > and then it goes out to lunch. > > I can still get into the system by using a KANOTIX live-cd (knoppix > derivative) that uses grub. Then manually boot with "kernel > (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.10 vga=791" and the system is doing rather well. So.. > things work if I use grub exterally, but not from the MBR. I'd really like to > avoid making an ext2/3 partition to house grub if I can. Any ideas? > > Dave > > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- [email protected] mailing list
