Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist--> grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> grub>

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist--> grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case, you may want to try this: > > # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive > that doesn't exist--> > grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> > grub> setup (hd0) <-

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 > > > > Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened: > > Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec > > with: "Grub loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 > Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened: > Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec > with: "Grub loading, please wait ..." > > Since that is the moment whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR > > first but that didn't help. > > Right, have you checked your device.map to see if there's anything > untoward in there? > (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have > > installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the > > first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have > installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the > first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each > and every device where

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > installed grub with > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done > > Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come from > "Grub loading Stage1.5" > to > "Grub loading, pl

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200 > > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > > installed grub with > > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > installed grub with > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done > > Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec)

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:11:01 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 > > Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter > and/or path to the kernel image. > > Sebastian > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > > installed grub with > > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done > > My knowle

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > installed grub with > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not sure what this does - can

[gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come from "Grub loading Stage1.5" to "Grub loading, please wait..." and then another 10