Fwd: How to recover boot floppy in Lenny
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From: Mauricio Contreras <mauricio.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: How to recover boot floppy in Lenny
To: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:48:10 -0300, Mauricio Contreras wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
>>> You mean there is no sound "after" you login?
>>>
>>> I fail to see any relation with that fact (no sound) and the bootloader
>>> being located in a floppy disk or SuperGrubDisk so I would investigate
>>> first why the sound stopped from working.
>
> (...)
>
>> I recovered sound in Lenny after booting with SuperGrub and running
>> alsaconf as root. I picked up my old SoundBlaster Live card and the
>> emu10k1 module with alsaconf and set it up as the main sound card
>> (there's also an integrated AC'97 in the motherboard) card with index=0.
>> Then sound came back.
>
> Ah, that makes more sense to me :-)
>
> (...)
>
>> My disks are set up as follows:
>>
>> IDE 80 GB hda: 2 partitions
>> hd0, 40 GB --- windows xp boot;
>> hd1, 40 GB --- windows xp data files
>
>> SATA 80 GB sda 1 partition
>> sda 80 GB -- windows data files
>
>> SATA 500 GB
>> sdb 1 partition sdb (??) 500 GB ---lenny
>>
>> I haven't been able to configure Grub 0.94 to boot in this setup so I
>> have used SuperGrub or a bootable floppy with Lenny. Could you point me
>> to an appropiate grub setup?
>
> Well, it seems you have 3 physical hard disks, with windows installed in
> the first partition of the IDE hdd and Lenny in the second SATA (500 GiB).
>
> First you have to do is *to know* what hard disk is being booted in first
> place by the BIOS ("IDE 80" -windows- or "SATA 500" -lenny-). After that,
> put here the results of your findings and we will see what could be the
> better setup for installing GRUB :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
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I'm enclosing results from fdisk -l and the current grub setup from menu.lst
debian:/home/mferminco# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disco /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeba8eba8
Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/hda1 * 1 9964 80035798+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disco /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x353e353d
Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/sda1 * 1 3636 29206138+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3637 10011 51207187+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3637 10011 51207156 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disco /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x869150ed
Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60471 485733276 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 60472 60801 2650725 5 Extendida
/dev/sdb5 60472 60801 2650693+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
THIS COMES FROM /boot/grub/menu.lst. It doesn't boot linux!
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
Right now the system boots Windows XP directly.
Mauricio Contreras
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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