You are not logged in.

#1 2007-08-15 02:30:52

jeebusroxors
Member
Registered: 2005-10-26
Posts: 58
Website

Grub Woes

Well I am at a loss. Here be the problem:

Grub kind of works, but is not reading my config. Partitions are as follows:

hda1  - /boot
hda2  - swap
hda3  - /home
hda4  - /

Grub is installed on hdb

I installed grub using root (hd0,0)  and then setup (hdb).

Like I said grub works, but I get no menu. If I do the whole root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda4 ro etc etc everything is fine.

Installing grub on hda does not work at all, I'm thinking the MBR is bad? but that is a different thread.

Can the collective arch minds lend a hand?


grub.conf (ln to menu.lst from the gentoo wiki).
http://pastebin.isawsome.net/pastebin.php?show=231


There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Offline

#2 2007-08-15 11:43:46

Magician21
Member
Registered: 2007-03-23
Posts: 45

Re: Grub Woes

I had a similar problem.  It turned out that I needed to change the boot order of the hard drives in my bios.  If grub is on hdb, the bios attempting to boot from hda will not help you smile

Offline

#3 2007-08-16 00:59:56

jeebusroxors
Member
Registered: 2005-10-26
Posts: 58
Website

Re: Grub Woes

I have two problems with that - the first being I cannot determine which HD to boot off of, only that I want to boot of the HD.

The second problem is that grub actually works, it just doesn't find the menu.lst.

I suppose I could try mapping 0 to 1 and 1 to 0,  but I don't think that will change anything.


There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Offline

#4 2007-08-16 01:23:53

rayjgu3
Member
From: Chicago IL usa
Registered: 2004-07-04
Posts: 695

Re: Grub Woes

jeebusroxors wrote:

Installing grub on hda does not work at all, I'm thinking the MBR is bad? but that is a different thread.

does this machine have S.M.A.R.T.? is it enabled? should give you a warning if drive is bad
boot install cd run cfdisk /dev/hda what format are partitions? linux, windows, minix ntfs?

you could switch your drives around so hda would be hdb then boot off install cd mount / change /boot/grub/menu.lst & /etc/fstab to reflect changes
thus your pc will be booting from hda & arch will reside in hdb resolving any confusion with bios picking boot drive

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB