First: Here is what lead up to the problem
Question at the bottom:
F9 has been running great since it came out
I read that one should install F10 before F11 so I did install F10!
Everything went great.
(1) Then I tried to install the F11 iso dvd. After the anaconda started
message at the
John Koshi escribió:
Hi all,
I have a problem with the grub bootloader, as follows: I have a laptop
with an 80G disk, with Windows XP on the first half of the disk (NTFS),
and Fedora core 4 (LVM) on the rest. Dual boot is managed by grub, which
was installed with the Fedora install.
I wanted
Hi all,
I have a problem with the grub bootloader, as follows: I have a laptop
with an 80G disk, with Windows XP on the first half of the disk (NTFS),
and Fedora core 4 (LVM) on the rest. Dual boot is managed by grub, which
was installed with the Fedora install.
I wanted to clone this disk, so
Gerry Reno escribió:
cat /boot/grub/device.map:
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd3) /dev/hdi
(hd2) /dev/hdk
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command
I have a machine that has both an onboard Highpoint HPT372 ATA
controller and a Highpoint HPT302 Rocket 133 ATA controller as a PCI
card. The BIOS can see all the drives attached to both controllers.
Highpoint ATA controller cards always show up first in the drive
lettering as I've installed a
Gerry Reno wrote:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub root (hd0,0)
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
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.MY computer has two operating system one is windowsXP on hda1 one is linux on hda2 .I have fix up the windowsXP s ntldr on the MBR,and use
Hi I am running Suse Linux Professional 9.1 and KDE 3.3.0 and I am dual booting with Windows XP Professional.
Just recently I experienced a peculiar problem. When I booted the machine, instead of the boot menu it dropped to a command line prompt which said 'Grub' and nothing else.
I cannot
Hi,
Ihave a system (with single hard disk) installed with RedHat 9.0 and WindowsXP professional. I was using GRUB as my bootloader. It was working fine but all of a sudden, I am seeinga strange problem.
The GRUB screen does not wait for my input to choose the OS to boot. It just vanishes and
Hello Jon,
Your problem isn't with grub, but with ntldr. Can you please post your
boot.ini? I guess the relevant line is something like this:
c:\somefile=GRUB
where somefile is a copy of the first sector of /dev/hda3.
I really can't imagine this happening without your intervention, so
either you
I know it's ugly to reply to myself, but anyway, just a small note -
adding an entry to grub (or otherwise changing its conf) doesn't
require reinstalling it, unlike lilo. 'make install' in the kernel
runs /sbin/installkernel, which in RH eventually runs a program
named grubby, which has no
Hey,
I installed Red Hat Linux just yesterday, and for a reason that I don't know of,
the GRUB boot loader will not execute on the startup. Instead, it says
something like, 'GRUB hard disk failure', but I can't remember the exact words,
I've been troubleshooting Linux for a while and haven't
Barry Skidmore writes:
I have Linux (Red Hat 7.2) installed on internal IDE drive 1 (hda) and
Windows XP installed on internal IDE slave drive 4 (hdd). Below is the
grub.conf file I am using. However, when I try to boot Windows XP, I
receive an error 21 (the selected disk can not be
I have Linux (Red Hat 7.2) installed on internal IDE drive 1 (hda) and
Windows XP installed on internal IDE slave drive 4 (hdd). Below is the
grub.conf file I am using. However, when I try to boot Windows XP, I
receive an error 21 (the selected disk can not be found). Any help
would be
ok first off sorry if im asking in th ewrong place but the faq didnt
seem to cover this.
i have a dell latitude cpxj laptop. the internal hard drive has both
win2000 and winXP on it (2000 is on primary partition and xp is on
extended). i also have the modular bay hard drive.
the internal
At Tue, 01 Jan 2002 11:35:43 -0500,
Justin Piszcz wrote:
Is it possible to find out what bootloader booted the system if the user
has both GRUB and LILO installed?
No. Any i386 boot loader should pass its own type to Linux (See
Documentation/i386/boot.txt, for more information), but Linux
When grub starts it says,
GRUB Hard Disk Error
The manual says that that means it cannot properly detect the disk's
geometry. Will putting a geometry command in the menu.lst be a fix for
this? Or is there something else I that will fix this that I do not
know?
btw I'm not on the list - please
fdisk /mbr
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:30:31PM +, Tom Mortimer wrote:
Hi
I'm having a problem with grub, after using it successfuly with
Windows 98 and Linux (Mandrake) i decided to remove linux, so i just
deleted the linux drive partition(!) Now my machine (P2 333, 192 Mb
13 Gb HDD)
I am trying to create a GRUB boot floppy as per The GRUB manual
The first line: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
works and loads on the floppy apparently properly.
The second line: dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
gives the error message: /dev/fd0, Invalid argument.
Can anybody Help
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:05:09PM -0600, G. Arena wrote:
| I am trying to create a GRUB boot floppy as per The GRUB manual
| The first line: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
| works and loads on the floppy apparently properly.
| The second line: dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
|
Gordon ``48, 1'' is 0x3001, not 0x4801.
Of course, you are right ! I'll try that next week and let you know...
Gordon Maybe try that, but I can't say that I know what your problem
Gordon is.
My problem is that I've done too much hex lately and I have a tendancy
to interpret everything I see
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- I also tried passing the root= option as an hex value. I used:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.12-686
root(hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.12-686 root=0x4801 ro
initrd
sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315repeatmerged=yes
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:01:57PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Maybe try that, but I can't say that I know what your problem is.
msg04606/pgp0.pgp
Jason == Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jason sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups:
Jason http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315repeatmerged=yes
Well, as he said and as I've seen, it works with 2.2 but not with some
or all 2.4. Does grub do
diff -ur grub-0.90.orig/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c grub-0.90/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c
--- grub-0.90.orig/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c Sat Feb 3 00:31:03 2001
+++ grub-0.90/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.cSun Oct 21 11:23:16 2001
@@ -620,9 +620,7 @@
if (super.s_journal_block != 0)
{
this can't be the case I have a machine here with this controller and
grub and it boots fine!
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Catalin Beju wrote:
Hi all,
I'm experiencing problems with grub in conjunction with HPT 370 IDE
controller.
All my HDD are connected to this controller
Well, that was a good suggestion nevertheless! There is no problem
if we use grub 0.90.
Thanks,
--Martin
Jason Thomas wrote on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:15 +1100
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Jason == Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jason Adrian, are you able to test this, and maybe debug!
Jason Thanks.
Just back from hols.
snip
Here is what I have in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.9-686 root (hd0,0) kernel
Adrian, are you able to test this, and maybe debug!
Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:13:07 +0200
From: Laurent Bonnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#111315: grub: problem
I think I may have some helpful information regarding this.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:25:16AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
| - Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
...
[ kernel 2.4.x ]
...
| - partitions are detected correctly (including the root partition)
| -
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:10:56PM -0400, dman wrote:
| kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-686 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1 ro
no its a DAC960 raid controller.
your problem could be because your fstab was wrong? or you didn't have
devfs mounted, which can be setup to do so automatically when you
Thanks for reminding me about the partition table.
sfdisk -d /dev/hda sfdisk.dump
if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
sfdisk --force /dev/hda sfdisk.dump
This should preserve the partition table and enable the overwrite of the
mbr.
Larry
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
On Mar 12, Larry Pells
Janus,
Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd if=virgin.mbr
of=/dev/hda
then delete Mandrake again. virgin.mbr is is attached and must be in the current
working directory
that the command is executed. Also hda is your hard drive location. This may be
differnet on
Hello,
I have a problem with Grub: getting rid of it ..
I had Windows 2000 and Mandrkae installed on two
paritions,
I deleted Mandrake, and now it starts up in Grub. I
need to remove Grub from the boot record; I've tried
fdisk -mbr but I get the following erroe message:
"ERROR: Can´t save
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