thecreatrous

i'm having trouble getting into a fresh install of gentoo. this is my first time installing it. after going through the entire install handbook and rebooting i get the word "GRUB" repeating over and over. any ideas? thanks for your time everyone.

Nerderello

read the tutorial ( http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-19999.html ) about solving boot problems with grub.

Sounds like the stage1 part of grub (sits on the master boot record of your boot hard disk) cannot find the stage2 and grub.conf (sits in the /boot/grub/ folder). Could be that they are unreadable (easily verified by following the tutorial. Or could be that you told stage1 the wrong partition name (again look at the tutorial).

have fun

Nerderello

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budman7

Is it a GRUB_ prompt where you can't type anything?
Or is it grub> where you can type.

If it is the first, grub was not installed correctly.
If it is the second, you can do
"find /boot/grub/stage1"
If you have a separate boot partition, take the /boot off.

See Nerderello's tutorial for further instructions, as I can't remember them.

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thecreatrous

It's the first one where I can't type anything. thanks for all of your help guys.

thecreatrous

i did some more research and found that it is caused by my bios being set to detect my disks automatically so i set it the user type hdd. it boots into grub and now gives me a new error:

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-r9 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev

Error 15: File not found

budman7

Do this at the grub>


root (hd0,0) hit ENTER
kernel (hd0,2)/k hit TAB Your kernel should have finished typing itself, hit ENTER
initrd (hd0,2)/initrd put the kernel name in there. hit ENTER
boot ENTER
Then when you are in your system, you will need to add an initrd line to your grub.conf.
initrd /initrd-name of kernel

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mweston

I too have had that problem...but, I did a stage 3 install using the stage3-x86-2005.1.tar.bz2 file on the live cd

Any thoughts on this ?

I followed the handbook exactly.

System specs.

AMD T-Bird Processor 700 mhz
Radeon 8500
ASUS A7V mobo
Western Digital 40gb hdd

/dev/hda1 is /boot
/dev/hda2 is swap
/dev/hda3 is /

budman7

Which problem?
GRUB_
Error 15

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mweston

Grub repeating over and over after reboot...

no prompt...

budman7

I have never heard of Grub repeating over and over.
Lilo will repeat over and over with a number like this

L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99 L99

But Grub will just give an error and then sit there waiting for you to respond.
Grub has 3 ways to display an error.
GRUB_
grub>
Error <number> Press any key to continue.

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