Maxim, I just had to chroot iinto my system from livecd and I got a similar error message from Grub (referring to your 3rd post) anyways try this command it let me use Grub from inside chroot:
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev I got it from this thread on forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-342872-highlight-grub.html Anyways I HTH couldn't figure out from above posts whether or not you problem was solved yet. Scott Jones On 5/31/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler schreef: > >>And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, > >>maxim (assuming you > >>get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your > >>menu? > > > > > > no choice. After grub-install I get the > > > > Grub loading stage1.5 > > Grub loading, please wait... > > > > message(white text,black bg). To get back to > > Macroshaft I boot into a Win98 CD and run fdisk /mbr > > > > > Ok, now I've got it. The menu doesn't load at all. > > But your previous post as to formatting the /boot partition made me > think of something.... I had problems like that some time ago, back when > I first installed my first Gentoo. > > Basically what had happened was I got weird and unattributable errors > due to my filesystem not being correctly formatted. It was supposed to > be formatted, and files were installed to it and everything, but > filesizes were being reported differently by different tools and things > just didn't work properly. > > What I wound up doing was using qtparted to delete the filesystem and > reformat it. Once the filesystem on the disk was the same as the > filesystem that the disk thought it had, everything worked fine. > > Now, I seem to recall having heard that it is possible to delete and > reformat a filesystem without deleting the partition (or damaging the > files thereon), but I didn't know enough at the time to do that, so I > just deleted the entire partition and recreated it. > > Since this is /boot, it won't be a tragedy to delete the partition, > recreate, format it as ext2 from the start and reinstall grub. But maybe > there's a way that you can just reformat the existing partition (again) > as ext2, so that it "takes". You might still have to reinstall grub > anyway, however at this point that seems like the least of your worries > :-) . > > Hope this helps, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
