On Sunday 07 August 2005 19.40, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 19.22, Richard Fish wrote: > > Dan Johansson wrote: > > >On Saturday 06 August 2005 20.43, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Dan Johansson wrote: > > >>>On Friday 05 August 2005 14.37, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>>>Dan Johansson schreef: > > >> > > >>1. Isn't (hd1,2) the same device as /dev/sdb2? It looks like your > > >> /boot and / are the same here... > > > > > >No, (hd1,2) is /dev/sdb3 (grub start counting from 0). > > > > Sorry, my mistake. > > No problem... > > > Ok. everything looks sane to me. What are the starting/ending sectors > > for /dev/sdb3? (fdisk -l -u). Some systems still have trouble > > accessing sectors past about 8GB through BIOS calls. > > Disk /dev/sdb: 4335 MB, 4335206400 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 527 cylinders, total 8467200 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 63 498014 248976 82 Linux swap > /dev/sdb2 498015 706859 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sdb3 706860 819314 56227+ 83 Linux > /dev/sdb4 819315 8466254 3823470 8e Linux LVM > > As you see its installed on a quite small disk (4GB) so the 8GB limit > should not be a problem in this case. > > I'm starting to think it's the kernel it self that is having a problem > (miss configuration) so I'm playing around with the kernel configuration at > the moment.
As I suspected, this was not a problem with GRUB, but with my brain. I had compiled the kernel with ProcessorFamily=Pentium4, and this machine only have a PII processor. After selecting ProcessorFamily=i586 the Gentoo system boots OK. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for all suggestions. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
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