Re: Grub/Grub2 fails with non-first root partition
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am currently attempting to install Debian on a laptop that currently has
> only windows xp on it.
> Using the testing netinstall iso, i ran the setup process several times
> but I keep getting the same problem over and over.
> The partition tables is as follows:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xace22e9e
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 3825 6797 23880622+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3 6798 9729 23551290 83 Linux
>
> (I have also tried creating a separate /boot partition [hda3] before the
> root partition [hda4], but that didn't change the outcome)
>
> Debian installation works smoothly and the new system is correctly
> deployed on the laptop. Unfortunately I am never able to boot into it.
> Grub2 starts but after a while the message "Unknown filesystem" is printed
> and a rescue console is started.
> Only a few basic commands are available and none of them helped me figure
> out where the problem is. After booting into a live distro, I checked
> grub2's configuration files but those seemed fine too.
>
> As a desperate move, I tried to netinstall debian stable that comes with
> grub legacy. That installation was successful too but still I couldn't
> make it past grub, which returned "Error 17".
>
> Despite having some good experience with linux systems, I am totally
> clueless on this one. Any suggestions?
Please rememmber
(hd0,1) is /dev/hda1 under grub2.
The debconf question is not really good for grub2 but the maintainer
thinks it will be better deald for squeeze. (Being forced to use grub 2
under lenny since I use MacBook, I was not so happy about it).
I am not really following this pat of squeeze. But following may be
useful.
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_stage_2_the_boot_loader
Osamu
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