I ended up 'biting the bullet' and installing LILO - this time it worked like a charm, and I am currently emerging everything else to get this beastie up and running. Hopefully I'll have the laptop online within the next 12 hours or so.
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 16:04, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I am trying to install grub on this laptop and upon entering the command > grub (after emerging it), I get the following errors: > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6e695f6f > printing eip: > c0138d43 > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0002 > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[<c0138d43>] Tainted: GF > EFLAGS: 00010206 > eax: e18b62e4 ebx: dddfabe0 ecx: df87066c edx: 6e695f5f > esi: df870650 edi: df87066c ebp: dff10200 esp: df511f28 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Process grub (pid: 20867, stackpage-df511000) > Stack: 00000000 dddfabe0 de8ca430 ffffffe9 dff16390 c0138ec0 df870650 > dddfabe0 > etc.... > > Last time this occured on this machine I installed lilo then managed to > completely screw up the hard disk, I don't want to do this again so > wonder if these errors point to any particular problem. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
