Re: Always falling to grub prompt
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:45:03PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> can you manually load the menu.lst?
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> grub> configfile (hd1,0)/grub/menu.list
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> 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
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> hmmm... that's a little fishy. can we see your (as root)
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> fdisk -l /dev/hda
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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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