Gentoo, GRUB, and cylinder>1024

[Travail]

I'm trying to install Gentoo Linux from the stage 3 CD. Everything went fine, until I rebooted. The Grub menu came up, but it's not able to boot Linux because the /boot partition is on a cylinder beyond 1024 (IIRC, it's around cylinder 27xx something). Windows boots fine though.

I "rebooted" from the CD-ROM, mounted the drives, and chroot'ed into the Gentoo environment. Some of the past threads suggested LILO, but "emerge lilo" failed -- since my drives were manually mounted, they're not listed in /proc/mounts. I tried "emerge grub" to load a newer version of Grub, but that didn't help.

I've gotten other distros to boot from that partition (Mandrake 8.1/8.2, RedHat 7.2), so I know it's not impossible. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[EHobaX]

You might want to try LILO. It doesn't have the >1024 restriction, IIRC.

 

[Travail]

I tried to install LILO, but because /proc/mounts wasn't present, "emerge lilo" failed.

Is /proc/mounts something I can enter manually without really screwing up the system? I can use my other Linux box for a template...

 

[BlackOmen]

Not a gentoo user, but here's my input: /proc/mounts is maintained by the running kernel. If you were getting that message, then it's possible that the /proc filesystem is not mounted. Type mount and see if /proc is listed. If it's not, mount it.

 

[Travail]

Mounting /proc did the trick; LILO was able to build and run without any problems. Thanks EHobaX and BlackOmen for your help!