Re: GRUB GRUB GRUB etc

[Chris Synan]

I am on .90

I have spent countless hours trying to fix this, i have stumped 100's of
people on the #gentoo

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!!

thanks

PS i have removed all drives except the IDE and still doesnt work,, i
have recompiled grub with no CFLAGS except "-pipe".. NOTHING

Thanks



On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 05:09, Titus Winters wrote:
> What version of Grub did you install?  I've had similar problems with
> the 0.92 release, but using 0.91 or even 0.90 seemed to clear it up.
> 
> -Titus
> 
> On (09/25 23:06), Chris Synan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just installed Gentoo and Grub.
> > 
> > When I reboot I don't get the "Stage 1.5" message.  Instead all I get is
> > 
> > GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
> > GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
> > GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
> > GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ...
> > 
> > well, you get the point.
> > 
> > anyway, I have done alot of digging around on google and IRC and i find
> > hints of the problem?  Some other people have had this problem when they
> > have SCSI RAID and IDE drives on the machine.  That is what I have
> > also.. but I removed the SCSI card and still get the same error.
> > 
> > I am confident that my menu.lst is set up properly, because I have
> > installed GRUB on a few other machines and it has worked OK.
> > 
> > Here are some stats of the machine:
> > 
> > PIII 800 512mb ram
> > Adaptec AAA 131 SCSI RAID (only supports MS) 2x IBM drives
> > WD IDE drive (w/ gentoo)
> > ASUS CUSL2 Mobo
> > 
> > on the gentoo drive
> > /dev/hda1 = boot
> > /dev/hda2 = swap
> > /dev/hda3 = root
> > 
> > menu.lst:
> > 
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > if anyone has seen this or has any idea how to fix, I would love to hear
> > it!! thanks,
> > 
> > chris
> > 
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