Re: grub boot failure

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. grub geometry (hd1) drive 0x81: C/H/S=1024/16/63, 1032192 sectors partition 0: type 82 partition 1: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds ... (at boot time) I imagine that your hard disk is lba and Grub doesn't dettect very

Re: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
However, if we boot with a DOS floppy and rewrite the MBR with “fdisk /mbr”, we’re once again able to boot either partition using the GRUB floppy. I understand this may be a WinNT error and not a GRUB error, but there is something being written to the MBR during the “setup (hd0)” that

Re: grub problem

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
I am sorry to trouble you some.But my grub has a little problem .When the computer boot up, I can see a commond line show as grub but any menu hasn't show out.MYcomputer has two operating system one is windowsXP on hda1 one is linux on hda2 .I have fix up the windowsXP s ntldr on the

Re: A GUEST that WON'T LEAVE - HELP!!!!

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
Hi, After removing R/H Fedora 3 from a laptop, fdisked the drive, formatted sys'ed it, then when rebooting found the 'GRUB'message CAN'T GET RID OF IT!. Would appreciate any help you could give on this. Stand on my head eat a BUG if you can assist. Yes, you're right. The problem is not

Doubts with Improvements on GNU GRUB Legacy.

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
I have some ideas on how to improve GNU GRUB Legacy but I have also some doubts: 1) I don't know if I've fully understood Grub source code but I've seen that there's a current partition and a current hard disk variables (the place where Grub or menu.lst is being runned) and another boot

Re: /dev/hdc does not have any corresponding BIOS drive

2005-12-09 Thread adrian15
Hello! On command: #grub-install /dev/hdc Give this message: /dev/hdc does not have any corresponding BIOS drive What me to do? Please answer to me? Edit devices.map on /boot/grub/ and add a line to reflect what does mean /dev/hdc... Usually it's something as: hd2 /dev/hdc Why

RE: A GUEST that WON'T LEAVE - HELP!!!!

2005-12-09 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Adrian, it would be nice if you were to give credit where credit is due. It happens that I was the one who made that suggestion. Especially since that's what I used. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Remember the Force will be with you. Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi