Re: Error loading operating system [SOLVED]
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 07:10 am, Florian Kriener wrote:
> On Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of
> > ram).
> >
> > and the installer formatted it for me. All the normal steps...network,
> > time....(I've done installs before. I have etch on hda in the same
> > box). Packages installed and configured without error. Set up root and
> > my accounts. Installed grub to boot the system then the big reboot,
> > and....
> >
> > Error loading operating system
> >
> > no grub menu. Black screen with white letters 80 X 25 mode.
> >
> > Any idea what may have messed up and how to get the system booting?
>
> If I understand you correctly you have at least two disks in your system
> and one of them is a PATA drive and the other is a SATA drive. This could
> lead to some confusion for the boot loader, because the order in which the
> drives are set up by the BIOS may differ from what your boot loader thinks
> it is (meaning the mapping from (hdX) to /dev/[hs]dY might be wrong). For
> this you got the /boot/grub/device.map file. Please make sure, that the
> entries in that file are correct. Additionally you have to make sure you
> install your boot loader in the first hard disk (as seen from your BIOS).
>
> What you can do now is to unplug all but one hard disk and try to boot and
> see if your error persists. I would suggest to unplug your SATA drive
> first. If you cannot boot into etch your SATA drive is most probably the
> first drive and you installed grub to your PATA drive. If you can boot
> into etch your SATA drive is still the first one, but you installed grub
> to your SATA drive and have a bad device.map file, or did not install grub
> at all. And so on.
>
I changed the order of the drives in the bios section that controls boot order
and now the system boots correctly. Many thanks,
Mark
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