Re: new Etch install fails to boot
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the
BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off Power
Management. I've tried the different Access Modes for the drive (Auto, LBA,
Large).
Then I tried rebooting the installer in rescue mode and reinstalling grub (I
think it did "grub-install /dev/hde1").
Then I tried doing a whole new install of just the base system, but set up
these partitions:
IDE5 master (hde) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
#1 primary 98.7 MB B f ext3 /boot
#3 primary 39.5 GB f ext3 /
#5 logical 1.5 GB F swap swap
IDE5 slave (hdf) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
#1 primary 41.2 GB ext2
which gave /boot its own partition at the start of the disk. I tried this a
few times and should mention that the `f' flags in the table sometimes showed
as `F' or `K'. I think `F' means "format this", but I haven't been able to
track down what `f' and `K' mean.
As I said, these all still crashed when the boot got to grub. I wouldn't
have guessed that there was any need to have the boot files near the start of
the disk anyway. Until two days ago, this same disk in the same box had a
9.8-GB Win98 partition (1252 cylinders), followed by Red Hat, as follows:
Mount Size
Device Point Type Format (MB) Start End
/dev/hde
/dev/hde1 vfat 9821 1 1252
/dev/hde2 /boot ext3 Y 102 1253 1265
/dev/hde3 / ext3 Y 28318 1266 4875
/dev/hde4 Extended 1020 4876 5005
/dev/hde5 swap Y 1020 4876 5005
/dev/hdf
/dev/hdf1 ext2 39260 1 5005
This worked fine, although I did have to force lba32 in lilo.conf.
Supposedly grub does this by default.
I have not yet tried the suggestion of making a grub disk but may if I can
figure out what to do with it.
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