Boot errors

There are a few boot errors that exist. The general two bits of advice should allow you to get around that. Obviously if you can't boot you'll need a LiveCD/DVD with grub and fdisk on it. You can use the Gentoo LiveCD and chroot to the broken system, using the the following:

FDISK
Set the "bootable" flag by pressing "a" then selecting the partition.

Grub
Enter the manual grub setup by typing "grub" at the prompt. Once the BIOS detection has passed, do the following:

grub console

Then reboot. This should fix most problems.

Still stuck
If you are Still stuck, at this point in time its advisable you grab a Windows 95 or Windows 98 floppy disk. When this floppy loads be prepared for a bombardment of relatively useless (spam?) information as it tells you that your computer does not a valid FAT32 drive for the primary partition.

Now reboot with the liveCD/DVD, and do the above again... Ordinarily my problems have been fixed with the 2nd step, sometimes, depending on age the 1st was required. This step I've only ever had to do on one computer.

If its an old BIOS, "Auto IDE/HDD Detection" may be in the list. Just run this. If its older you need to get the hard drive out write down the details and enter it manually. Most people won't have that problem as most computers that age no longer boot.

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