Update. After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2
The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hde (hd1) /dev/hdh (hd2) /dev/sda I edited the grub.conf file so that the splash image and root lines reference (hd2,5), then re-ran grub-install /dev/sda. Still no joy. On boot up, the screen stays blank for a while, then every 10 seconds or so, it adds another " GRUB" text element to the screen. No sign of any boot-up activity. Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 1:47 PM >To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org >Subject: Grub problems > >I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). >My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual >core processor. > >I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS >into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4, and maps within Linux to >/dev/sda. > >I also have two other parallel IDE dard drives, connected via a raid >controller (though not configured for RAID) to Drive numbers 0 and 3 on the >RAID controller. These drives map to hde and hdh respectively, with a DVD >writer mapping to both /dev/hda and /dev/dvdrw. > >The bios is configured to boot first from the DVD (primary IDE master) then >from the 250GB SATA hard drive. > >swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 > >I am running genkernel > >After I configure grub, and install grub to the mbr using grub-install, the >reboot fails, with GRUB doing nothing but display the text 'GRUB'. > >Evidently, either I am doing something wrong at the grub-install stage, or >there is a problem with grub. I have had a similar lack of success with >Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva installs (same problem). > >The boot partition is an ext3 filesystem > >My grub.conf file is as follows: > >default=0 >timeout=30 >splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 > root (hd0,5) > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2,6,17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev vga=0x318 > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap doscsi > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 > >When I run grub-install /dev/sda, it reports no errors. > >The device.map file contains the following >(hd0) /dev/sda >This file was generated by the fedora installation (possibly the source of the >problem?). > >Any suggestions gratefully received, as I'm trying to get this system working >by the end of the weekend. > >Thanks in advance > >Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
