Re: Grub not booting on fresh install of gentoo 2004.3

Joshua Bryan wrote:

> Ok I could really use some help.... I have never used linux before and I
> installed gentoo from a stage one last night and the first part of today....
> Everything went really well with the installation no evers everything
> working like it was suppose to. Then I get to the part of the install when I
> must create a grub.conf file so that it will boot. This is where I have ran
> into a problem and need some help.
>
> Here is my hardware setup as it pertains to booting,
>
> One WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drive on a Promise 20378 RAID controller.
>
> I had to load the module for the promise controller manually after booting
> from the live cd. however it then works just fine I have created the
> filesystem on it and everything. I compilied support the controller in my
> Kernel so I should not have any issues there.
>
> WD Raptor is /dev/sda
>
> Partitions are as follows,
>
> /dev/sda1 = boot partition ext2fs mounted at /boot 32MB size
> /dev/sda2=swap partition 512MB size
> /dev/sda3=linux root partition. ext3fs Mounted on / Size= all space left.
>
> I created a /boot/grub/grub.conf and tried to build one from scratch... I
> used sd0,0 for my location. This is where I need the help. I have my hard
> drive setup as listed above but cannot figure out what to put in the grub
> file... Can someone tell me based on the information here what my grub file
> should look like? This is the only drive I have and I am not duel booting or
> anything just tired of windows not working and am switching to linux. So
> when I did this and saved the file and installed it to the MBR and rebooted
> the machine it comes to a blank black screen with a blinking cursor.. Not
> grub information at all on the screen...
>
> Please help me and tell what I need to do to fix this! (Let me know if you
> need more information then I have given)
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~wd0mkr
>

Boot to a rescue disk, then:
$ grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda
$ update-grub

The second command will build a minimal menu.lst (grub.conf) file.
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