lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:30:03AM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote:

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Apologies in advance for the total newbie-ness of this question, but I can't seem to figure this one out.

I've managed to shrink the ntfs partition my Inspiron shipped with thanks to Fraser's tip. I've set up swap on hda2 and Gentoo on hda3. I followed the gentoo docs on setting up grub on the MBR (hda or hd0), but every time it boots I get:

GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB Loading, please wait...

Then nothing.

The good news is that I can boot both XP and Gentoo using a grub boot floppy and typing in my grub.conf manually. That leaves me with the impression that there's something wrong with the way I'm setting up grub. The docs said to do the following in grub:

...

root (hd0,2) setup (hd0)

Any ideas?

On debian I do: grub-install /dev/hda and that's it. I don't use grub to install grub.

FWIW, on my Inspiron 1100, the hard disk is actually hdc, the CD-ROM is hda. Debian suggested this in my lilo.conf: # Overrides the default mapping between harddisk names and the BIOS' # harddisk order. Use with caution. disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80 Perhaps Grub has a similar option or maybe you need to use hd1. Just a thought. -- tim writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> starnix inc. tollfree: 1-87-pro-linux thornhill, ontario, canada http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml