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panther
02-17-2003, 11:04 AM
It is my fourth time that I am trying to install gentoo, following the installation guide......... ,
it says root (hd0,0)
error 23:error while parsing number
i feel that i am not going to make it, can you help me otherwise i thing i may go back to the hated windows because i hate redhat even more............. :( :(
this isn't enough information.
at what point are you at in the install? what have you done so far?
panther
02-17-2003, 11:10 AM
I have finished everything
and boot normally with grub.......................................,i have done, and followed all the guide from the beggining to the end, umount everything althoug gentoo did not, it was busy but thats normal
then reboot....
and after the above message..............
z0mbix
02-17-2003, 11:15 AM
Just sounds like GRUB is misconfigured.
panther
02-17-2003, 11:17 AM
how can i reconfigure grub..........can i install lilo and use lilo instead.?:(
yep.
what is your partition table like?
if it isn't exactly like what they use in the instructions and you copied their grub config then it won't work.
stick with grub.
installing lilo isn't going to make it any easier.
you need to boot with the install cd, remount everything, chroot again, remount /boot and fix your grub configuration.
panther
02-17-2003, 11:20 AM
it is as in the guide
hda1 boot extf3
hda2 swap
hda3 extf3
, my grub though recognised it hda1 as extf2..........:confused:
recomendations.please................
post your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.lst)
panther
02-17-2003, 11:27 AM
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title= Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
try:
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
panther
02-17-2003, 11:39 AM
I still have the same problems..............:( :( :( :( :( :( :(
take a look at this page. it has a listing of grub error messages. from what i read it seems like yoiu ahve bad data somewhere.
http://linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_13.html
btw - i am going out for most of the day in a few minutes. hopefully someone else can pick up this thread and help you out some more.