Gentoo Linux

[Bill Cavalieri]

I had similar problem when I forgot to make sure /boot partition was
mounted during grub install.

boot with a boot disk, or boot with gentoo install cd, and chroot /boot
just like you did during install.  Then emerge grub again, thats what
fixed it for me.

Also you may want to check with the boot partion is the only one marked
bootable, I had some problems with a couple partitions being marked from
previous os's, for some reason the 2nd partion was trying to boot
instead of first.

-Bill

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 02:53, Lucas Peet wrote:
> Ok, so I followed the Install Doc perfectly, but when I try to boot
> Gentoo, I get GRUB problems.  At first it said "GRUB: Hard disk Failure"
> which is an error where GRUB can't determine the drive geometry.  I had
> this problem before, but don't remember how I fixed it.
> 
> Now, when I try to boot, I get no errors, it just says:
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> GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB... continuously across the screen.  Any
> ideas anyone?
> 
> Lucas Peet
> www.eccod.com
> lpeet at eccod.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Bill Cavalieri
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:27 PM
> To: Lucas Peet
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Gentoo Linux
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> Depends on what all you want installed.
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> Gentoo Linux itself (no desktops), from Stage 3, will not take long
> (since most everything is compiled).  But you still have to worry about
> desktops from that point.
> 
> Installing kde, gnome2, openoffice, mozilla, evolution, gftp, mrproject,
> xmms, and mplayer from a stage 1 install took a little over 40 hours on
> my pee3 with 512 ram.
> 
> -Bill
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> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 17:36, Lucas Peet wrote:
> > Anyone know about how long it should take to install Gentoo from a
> stage
> > 3 tarball?
> > 
> > Lucas Peet
> > www.eccod.com
> > lpeet at eccod.com
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