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Re: Always falling to grub prompt



On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:45:03PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> can you manually load the menu.lst?
> 
> grub> configfile (hd1,0)/grub/menu.list
> 
> should get you a menu. Its at least easier than type all the root,
> kernel etc lines.

Thanks for the tip, didn't know the command, but no, it doesn't work:

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

> 
> hmmm... that's a little fishy. can we see your (as root)
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 

hda is cdrom, the bootable disk is hdc:

/boot/grub# fdisk -l /dev/hda
/boot/grub# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
/boot/grub# fdisk -l /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 10.2 GB, 10248118272 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa24df59a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1        1244     9992398+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/boot/grub# fdisk -l /dev/hdd

Disk /dev/hdd: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00014f58

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1       19331   155276226   83  Linux
/dev/hdd2           19332       19457     1012095   82  Linux swap / Solaris

As I'm typing this, I notice for the first time that hdd1 is marked as
bootable. That's not correct, right? Is is possible that something
during some upgrade did it without me knowing? I will try to delete
the boot flag...


Victor




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