Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Preston Boyington (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150 >> laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the >> install, the computer would reboot, and the laptop would hang at >> GRUB's boot loader. Since I know that the installer is still >> evolving, I didn't think much of it. >> >> Well after trying the latest netinst and Official Snapshot cdrom 1 >> today (again without total sucess) I decided to try an older Woody >> netinst cdrom I had. Long story short it installed very quick and >> painless. I am wondering now if it was just the difference between >> LiLo and GRUB. >> >> If this is the case how would I go about finding out why GRUB doesn't >> seem to work? > > The Sarge installer (at least the version I used, on DVD) > allowes you to > choose between Grub and Lilo. Maybe you have to select expert mode to > make that choice available. > > I am also not sure when exactly your Sarge hang - at the Grub screen, > or the moment you tried to boot the system from Grub. If the > latter is the > case, then it is maybe a kernel problem. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following:
root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 savedefault boot after that, nothing.
