I think I have something more basic (i.e. hardware-related) than that. I've tried installs of Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva Linux with the same result, and both Lilo and Grub fail. I'm going to take out the raid card tonight and step down to a single drive and see if I can get around the issue that way.
There were no custom CFLAGS in use, and I built it from the stage3 tarball. Unfortunately, I've already wiped that particular attempt during last night's diagnosis process, so I can't do the checks you suggest. Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 10:48 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen, >> repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text. > >Hmm, "GRUB" isn't very informative. That particular string should >only be printed once when the stage1 loader (the part that is >installed in your MBR) executes. If this is appearing multiple times, >my best guess is that your stage1 file in /boot/grub/ is corrupt, or >was somehow built incorrectly. You don't have "custom-cflags" in USE, >do you? > >What does "equery check grub" and "md5sum /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1 >/boot/grub/stage1" report? > >-Richard >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
