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flashingcurser · January 25th, 2007, 07:56 PM

You can use lilo, I use it when I need a /boot partition. There are instructions on the gentoo site. ntldr is very clunky, if I recall you still have to have another bootloader on the other partition to use this.

My gut reaction is that the display settings in grub were set up wrong. I usually don't even bother any more, console fonts are fine for me when booting. This could happen with any boot loader. If you have trouble again post your lilo.conf or grub.list. You should be able to edit it from the gentoo live cd. You would just have to mount partitions and chroot, then edit.

dan

oh, and I forgot, having lilo or grub in your mbr is much nicer.

January 25th, 2007, 07:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
flashingcurser Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: ThirdWorld- Montana Posts: 608	You can use lilo, I use it when I need a /boot partition. There are instructions on the gentoo site. ntldr is very clunky, if I recall you still have to have another bootloader on the other partition to use this. My gut reaction is that the display settings in grub were set up wrong. I usually don't even bother any more, console fonts are fine for me when booting. This could happen with any boot loader. If you have trouble again post your lilo.conf or grub.list. You should be able to edit it from the gentoo live cd. You would just have to mount partitions and chroot, then edit. dan oh, and I forgot, having lilo or grub in your mbr is much nicer. __________________ If you believe it is important for future generations to learn about computers. Please help--- http://computer4kids.us Last edited by flashingcurser : January 25th, 2007 at 07:58 PM.