Re: GRUB loader error message (Thanks Alvin)
Alvin--
Just that simple change did it. Thanks a lot sir!
So I take it that Grub looks at hd0 as the BOOT drive
based on your BIOS settings and boot sequence. hd1 in
this case would be "hda", hd0 is "hdb" because hdb is
the actual boot device.
Thanks again for your help,
J. Merritt
--- Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
>
> > Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1
>
> k
>
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041
> 7
> > HPFS/NTFS
>
> k .. that agrees with your prior statement
>
> > /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040
> f
> > W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>
> that is windoze too ...
>
> what happend to hda3 and hda4
>
> > /dev/hda5 2434 3197 6136798+
> 83
> > /dev/hda6 3198 3337 1124518+
> 82
> > /dev/hda7 3338 4865 12273628+
> 83
>
> > /dev/hdb1 * 1 3188 25607578+
> c
>
> k .. its windoze again
>
> > /dev/hdb2 3189 7298 33013575
> 83
>
> k .. back to linux again
>
> > /dev/hdb3 7299 7476 1429785
> 5
>
> k.. this is a "real" extended partition
>
> > Here is a directory output of /dev/hdb2/boot/grub:
>
> good on list of grub files ( hdb2 )
>
> > BIOS is set to look at hdb first,
>
> okay... but grub still thinks of it as (hd1)
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> > Someone else on the debian-user
> > list said you cannot boot from within an extended
> > partition.
>
> donno ... i never boot from anything other than hda1
> or hda2
> ( or hdb or hdc or hdd ) ...
> - it's asking for $100M cash if you try to boot
> from non-standard partitions on any random mb
> and randm bios with random bootloaders
>
> > > > root (hd1,1)
>
> that will try to use /dev/hdb2 ... good
>
> > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686
> root=/dev/hdb2
>
> good
>
> > > > root (hd1,1)
> > > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xf
> > >
> > > why is it type "f" ??? it is NOT linux ...
> > > --------------------------------------------
>
> it is "type f" because grub thinks hd1 is /dev/hda
> also based on your bios boot-sequence
>
> you should be using root (hd0,1) aka what grub
> thinks as /dev/hdb
>
> - manually edit it with grub menu before
> it boots and fails
>
> ( e for edit -> change 1 to 0 -> esc -> b for boot
> )
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
>
>
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