Re: grub pukeing

unmask grub in your /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask,
install grub0.92, and then re-run the grub stuff
-mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "ben" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 13:30
Subject: [gentoo-newbies] grub pukeing


> haveing successfully built my workstation with the hidden 1.4 stage1
> tarball and a truely sick list of CFLAGS, i thought it might just be
> stable enough to convert my file server over from FreeBSD.  everything
> compiled  & installed cleanly (including LVM) but when i try to boot, grub
> pukes and sprays something like this all over the screen:
>
> GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB <ad nausium>
>
> it looks like the output from the basic programs i used to run on C64
> machines at sears in my youth.
>
> Does anyone know of a quick fix for this, or should i just suck it up and
> run lilo?
>
> the specs are as follows:
>
> Athlon tbird @ 1400
> Abit kt7aRaid MB
> 512MB PC133 from Mushkin
> cheap ass S3 Video card (am thinking this might be the problem)
> 2x Adaptec 2940 controllers:  one for the wide drives, one for the narrow
> 2x each Seagate 1550W and 1550N drives
> 2x ibm Deathstar 40 GB drives
> 3com 3c590 nic
>
> am booting off of one of the wide scsi drives, and my filesystems and swap
> are distributed amongst the other 3 scsi drives.  the deathstar drives
> will hold the AFS shares, but i haven't set them up yet.
>
> everything is verified to be mechanically ok, it was running FreeBSD
> perfectly yesterday afternoon.
>
> Is there anything glaringly stupid about this setup that anyone thinks
> might be causing the problem?
>
> thanks,
>
> ben
>
>
>
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