Arch Linux

infestdead

Member

From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 38

boot problem (grub)

I'm dual booting arch and ubuntu. And one day, after the power went down, I get this error at boot:

Booting 'ArchLinux 0.7.2'
root hd0,3)
Error 11: Unrecognized device string
Press any key to continue...

I can boot into ubuntu but arch got screwed up, how can I fix it?
Here's my menu.lst

timeout   5
default   0
color red/yellow light-cyan/green

title    Arch Linux 0.7.2 (Gimmick), kernel 2.6.17-ARCH
root    hd0,3)
kernel    /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda4 ro
initrd    /boot/initrd26.img

title    Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, kernel 2.6.15-26-386
root    (hd0,0)
kernel    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386

Thank you in advance.

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phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: boot problem (grub)

First off, you're missing an opening parenthesis on the root line for arch - it should be "(hd0,3)", the same as you have for ubuntu.

Also, please switch to mkinitcpio when you can:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=23864

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infestdead

Member

From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 38

Re: boot problem (grub)

Yeap. That bracket did it. (Feel stupid  :oops: ). Will switch to mkinitcpio asap. Thanks a lot.

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