Re: GRUB GRUB GRUB etc

[Chris Synan]

I am booting to the Gentoo 1.4 CD, then chroot 

please keep in mind alot of this stuff is somewhat over my head so if i
dont make sense, ask again and i'll do my best to clarify

I am not running grub-install but I can only assume that "emerge" the
gentoo package tool IS.  

I have had several people look at my menu.lst and grub.conf and fstab
and fdisk etc.etc. and i think we are in agreement that that stuff is ok
now.  but still all I get is GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB

I am compiling with emerge, it downloads source and compiles it from an
".ebuild" script, best as i understand it.  I have tried .90 and .92
with same results.

Like i said, at first my CFLAGS was "-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"  first I
removed the -O3 and tried again.  Then I also removed the march part
leaving only "-pipe"

still none of these options work.. including stripping the machine
bare.  also this guy on #gentoo has the same mobo as me so i guess we
rule that out.

The ebuild release is .90r7 i beileve, also we have tried .92

thanks!!



On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 06:18, Titus Winters wrote:
> Uh . . hmm.  Let me ask some silly questions to make sure we are
> on the same page.
> 
> - How are you booting to recompile / reinstall Grub?  
> - You are running grub-install after recompiling, right?  (make install 
>       doesn't do it)
> - What commands are you using to do the recompile?  Any configuration
>       options?
> - Is there a Portage release for GRUB?  What version is that?
> 
> -Titus
> 
> On (10/02 00:08), Chris Synan wrote:
> > 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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