Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
On Friday, 23 March 2018 22:03:45 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I appreciate the pointers. however it also said that it couldn't embed > grub. I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition You can install grub in the MBR of a disk, or in the boot record of a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
sorry, that should be "I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition and/or the fact that a different (64b vs 32b) grub, i.e. different versions of grub and likely different revisions." mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) -- God bless the rich, the greedy and the corrupt po

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
I appreciate the pointers.  however it also said that it couldn't embed grub.  I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition and/or the fact that a different (64b vs 32b).  unfortunately i did mess it up enough that grub went to the rescue/command line when i tried to reboot.  Star

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:57:31 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > When I run "grub-install/dev/boot" (following the manual) I i get the error > "grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB for /dev/boot. You have typed no space between the command 'grub-install' and the device.

[gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-22 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
When I run "grub-install/dev/boot" (following the manual) I i get the error "grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB for /dev/boot.  Check your device map"  I looked at the /boot partition and there is no device map.  I'm installing gentoo running debian.  I have another os so the boot partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems - Success

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
2006 9:14 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) >Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >> The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is >> top of the hard drive order lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
chard 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
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 par

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I can't remember - is grub trying to boot off the RAID? I found grub couldn't handle my SCSI RAID and when I checked it was a known issue? On Sunday October 29 2006 21:14, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) > > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > The Bios drive order appea

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer wrote: > The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is > top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped. > > Jeff Perhaps simplifying the environment might help diagnose the problem. Have you considered disconn

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped. Jeff -Original Message- >From: Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 8:06 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install. >  If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll > take the computer back to the shop :-/ It seems to me that bios and grub have different i

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
take the computer back to the shop :-/ Jeff -Original Message- >From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 6:27 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Richard, The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf file per your instructions was Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
PS: The /boot/grub/devices.map presently contains (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/hde (hd2) /dev/hdh Jeff -Original Message- >From: Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:55 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
f -Original Message- >From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> swapspace is on /dev/sda2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 [snip] My grub.conf file is as follows: default=0 timeout=30 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot