[Sussex] Grub problem?

[John D.]

Hi list,

Had a few small(ish) snags post re-installing gentoo the other day. The  
main one, I might have managed to sort out.

Anyhow, when I did my emerge -uD world, one of the things it  
updated/upgraded was a new kernel version. So I did my usual, and  
following the instructions in the Gentoo kernel upgrade guide, did the  
upgrade. Which is now "sitting alongside" the old version.

The problem is actually twofold.

Firstly, when I boot the system, the grub "screen" i.e. the one that  
offers OS choice won't start or it looks really hideously corrupted and  
virtually unreadable.

But then when it starts to boot the original kernel, it boot fine.

If I try and boot the newer kernel version, it gives me a vvv corrupted  
screen as says something about invalid modes and offers a "return" to see  
different video modes (1 thru 9, plus a or "scan"). From here, it doesn't  
matter what I do, if it starts the boot sequence, it gets so far and then  
"errors" telling me that it doesn't recognise the root partition or that  
I've supplied and invalid block device.

This I don't understand, because the entries I have in the grub.conf,  
apart from the titles of the kernel/initrd version, are the same.

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0) /grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192  
real_root=/dev/hda3 udev vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r8

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192  
real_root=/dev/hda3 udev vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r3

I did try doing grub-install /dev/hda again, but to no affect.

Perhaps someone could advise me on this ?

regards

John D.
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