Hi.

Installed Gentoo today via LiveUSB, everything went fine, the usual.

But when I boot it goes into grub command line and I'm forced to boot via manually selecting the kernel, initrd etc (which works fine).

I'd rather have it so I can just press enter on my OS of choice though.

Anyone know what's up?

I've reinstalled GRUB a few times.

Are you sure /boot/grub/grub.cfg has valid contents?
What's your harware configuration(I mean, where is grub installed, how many disks, how many partitions, etc)?

Hi!

Check your /boot/grub/menu.lst

I had the same problem.
Grub counts from zero, so for example if your kernel is on /dev/sda3 make sure you specify the root as hd(0,2)

That worked for me...

Also, this might help: http://jbakshi.50webs.com/Linux_tuto...implified.html

You need to make sure that your grub.conf is set up correctly

here's an example:

# Default to first entry
default 0
# Automatically boot default after 30 sec
timeout 30

# linux 3.0.4 kernel
title=Linux 3.0.4 (Gentoo)
# boot from first HDD partition no 7
root (hd0,7)
kernel /linux-3.0.4-gentoonoradeon_preemptvol


Any kernel arguments should be put after the kernel filename.

If you are not sure on what root (...) is supposed to be you can go and try it out when you are in the "interactive" mode for grub as it has autocompletion with <TAB>

I do not know which version of grub you are using but it sounds like you need a grub.cfg or menu.lst. If you boot it by typing it should be no problem to build your own from your text editor and place it in /boot/grub in either grub version.