[SOLVED] issues with GRUB configuration

[beakerman]

okay I got a AMD k6 box with matrox video card I notice when booting gentoo from live CD I get a VESA VGA prompt and have to select a mode. I got Gentoo installed and went to boot into my new installation. When I say boot from the Grub line the screen goes black and then the machine reboots. I looked at the grub issues and it said to disable frame-buffer in my kernel I took this outta my make menuconfig and recompiled and tried with same results. I am wondering if there is a log somewher I can see that might say why its rebooting #1 (i installed syslog-ng) but since it isn't booting I am assuming no. Is there is anything that I should look at beside this ?? :eek:

[XiaoKJ]

Post your grub configfile first.

Most likely its also your kernel config that is wrong too.

[beakerman]

grub file
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timeout 30
root (hd0,0)
kernel /PDFKernel root=/dev/hda3

I am thinking it is my kernel config in an attempt to get past I installed a Diamond Viper card and it seems to be doing better than the Matrox card

[beakerman]

Okay I just got done doing the recompile and rebooted with the RIVA TNT card unfortunately to my surprise it still didn't let the linux installation boot so I am now thinking not the video card causing the blood pressure to rise ;) so I am going to recompile my kernel and check to make sure everything is correct such as the arch and proccessor family selections I am setting this box up to be a PDF server in a W2K domain I have a dual boot system myself and prefer the speed and versatility of Linux :)

[XiaoKJ]

why not try the genkernel first. I believe its the whole kernel config file you have that is in dire straits. Your configurations are most likely flawed in onw way or another.

And why are you changing kernel drivers like that? it is not appropriate to do that! Be careful not to spoil your computer.

did the grub issues you read recommend you to remove VIRTUAL FB or FB? it is very much different....

Finally, I can't seem to make much sense of your posts. I am not really a native english speaker, and spoken english in written form is really bogus to me. Can you at least spend more time writing these posts because these are what we use to help you.

[beakerman]

Captain we have Success! I went to my /usr/src/linux and did the make menuconfig.
In my excitement of getting the kernel built I missed the sub architecture option and it was set to Pentium 4 hmmmm AMD K6 getting a command for a pentium 4 that could cause a problem :) thanks.