On Monday 26 February 2007, Marco Schuler wrote: > Hi all, > > after using other distributions for years I finally decided to go > with gentto to have to most flexibility. So here I am :-) > > I got trough the gentoo installation up to the point of installing > grub. After the command 'grub-install /dev/hda' my machine hangs > displaying the following meassage: > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time
You are installing grub to an IDE device. Is that how you normally address that device? It might be a SATA drive What is the contents of your device.map file? I've seen that cause grub to search endlessly for a device that isn't there alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list