Re: Help with Install/GRUB

[Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com>]

wow, linux is pretty terrible.

I did a complete install again (removing the SSD harddrive from the 
system completely).
It rebooted and grub is working now and have two options (single user 
mode is the second).
I try to boot to both of them and it just says

File 15: File not found.
Press any key.

I installed FreeBSD (minimal install) and also Solaris i386, from like 4 
years ago.
Both of those work fine. 

I tried re-install on just the SSD and when it goes though Grub it gives 
some "Can not mount /dev/hda1" (or whatever the hard drive name is).

-Dean

David Bernier wrote:
> Depo Catcher wrote:
> > I'm trying to install on a Core2Duo with this:
> > debian-501-amd64-netinst
> >
> > The two disk drives are SATA Seagate 500 Gigs and Sata Intel SSD 32 
> > Gigs.
> >
> > I boot off CD and install over network which works fine.
> > It asks if I want to install Grub and saves it's safe since it's the 
> > only OS.
> > I say yes and it installs without error (this is ONLY going to be 
> > running Debian, no other OSes, no dual booting).
> >
> > CD is removed and it is removed.  It has
> >
> > Boot:
> > F1: Linux
> > F5: Drive 1
> >
> > Default: F3
> >
> > I've tried hitting F1, F3, F5 and Enter.  In all cases it goes to:
> > GRUB
> >
> > and at that point the entire system locks up.  I waited over an hour 
> > (went to get something to eat) and was still stuck at GRUB.
> >
> > I've ran WinXP and Vista on this computer.  They both work PREFECT 
> > and boot fast and without errors.
> > I update my BIOS firmware and that didn't help.
> >
> > Any ideas? (besides reinstalling windows, haha).
> What are you're boot order settings in the BIOS?
>
> (1)  boot from ...
> (2)  boot from ...
> (3)  boot from ...
>
> Maybe Grub is not aware of your current partitions arrangement?
>
> I'd suggest looking at the grub.conf file. (if you can boot from a CD and
> mount the disk drive).
>
>
> I only know a little about GRUB, so maybe I'm on the
> wrong track.
>
> David Bernier
>
>
>
>
> According to an article about the Fedora distro., if someone makes 
> ext3 (Linux) partitions
> with Windows Partition Magic, Grub won't know:
>
> < http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=996 >
>
>
>
> I have:
>
> [root@Zeta ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
> file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,2)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=0
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64)
>    root (hd0,2)
>    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 ro 
> root=UUID=d86a7098-b615-4a08-9583-9b8968fb721e rhgb quiet
>    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64.img
> title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64)
>    root (hd0,2)
>    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro 
> root=UUID=d86a7098-b615-4a08-9583-9b8968fb721e rhgb quiet
>    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img