On 02/28/2011 07:25 AM, dhk wrote: > On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk <dhk...@optonline.net> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I >>> spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it >>> almost worked. I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should >>> be repairable once I find the mistake. If it's something else, I may be >>> doing this again next weekend. >>> >>> Thanks again, >>> >>> dhk >> >> What error does it give you? >> >> PS. Are you chainloading Gentoo from the MSWindows boot manager, or >> MSWindows from GRUB? > > I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions > since the initial install. > > The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff. Can't boot to Windows > or Linux. It looks like the Grub menu never comes up. However, it > seems to know about it, because the menu options can still gets executed > either after the time out or by pressing Enter. Then some stuff gets > printed to the screen and the boot process begins, but it errors before > the Operating Systems come up. When trying to boot to Windows, I have > no idea why it errors. When trying to boot to Linux, the fsck.ext3 > fails on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition. It seems to think it's > ext2, but when I checked (by booting to the livecd) with tune2fs -j it > says it's already journaling. After the boot fails and I give the root > password, I looked in /dev and there aren't any sda partitions and I > have 12 on the disk. My disk looks like the following. > > Filesystem ~Size Mounted > /dev/sda1 128M MS Windows 7 boot partition - HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 50G MS Windows 7 - HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 512M /boot - ext2 > /dev/sda4 extended partition > /dev/sda5 512M swap > /dev/sda6 5G FAT32 > /dev/sda7 12G / - ext3 > /dev/sda8 50G LVM2 - ext3 > /dev/sda9 50G LVM2 - ext3 > /dev/sda10 50G LVM2 - ext3 > /dev/sda11 50G LVM2 - ext3 > /dev/sda12 50G LVM2 - ext3 > /dev/mapper/vg-usr 8G /usr > /dev/mapper/vg-home 5G /home > /dev/mapper/vg-opt 3G /opt > /dev/mapper/vg-var 2G /var > /dev/mapper/vg-tmp 1G /tmp > > Thanks > dhk > >
Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong. 1) The (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2). That fixed the problem with no Grub menu. 2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should have been (hd0,0) for the Windows boot partition not the Window Operating System. Now when I boot the Grub menu comes up and booting to Windows works. However, I still have the same problem booting to Linux. It chokes on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition and my real_root kernel option. Thanks, dhk
