Hello, I seem to be having trouble installing grub on i586 systems.
What I use is the "install-x86-minmal-2006.0.iso" cd to boot the system and follow the hadbook install guide. But I use the stage3 tarfile: stage3-i586-2006.1.tar.bz2 Everything runs fine until I try to reboot off the hard drive. I get this Grub loading stage1.5 Grub loading, please waite... Error 16 It's repeatable on (2) different (amd k6) systems. Googling mostly reveals suggestions about file system being corrupt. I ran file system chekcs (reiserfsck) per previous instuctions and /boot and / come back clean and happy. The ide disk setup is very simple: fdisk /dev/hda # Device BootStartEnd Blocks Id System # /dev/hda1 * 1 50 401593+ 83 Linux # /dev/hda2 51 185 1084387+ 82 Linux swap # /dev/hda3 * 186 2434 18065092+ 83 Linux and grub default 0 fallback 1 timeout 30 #0 title=kernel-2.6.21-gentoo-r4 root(hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.21-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda3 #0 title=kernel-2.6.21-gentoo-r4 root(hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.21-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda1 (Note I use 2 entries in case one does not work) Then run: grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda exit chroot and unmount and reboot. What am I missing ? Is there a better way to install minimalistic gentoo firewalls? If somebody was to make a HD image that worked, I'd just dd it directly onto a 8G HD..... I have about a dozen of these firewall to build and using gentoo has worked very well, once I get a minimal (no X) system installed. ideas? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
