Hi Ralf, >> damn! I think I killed my GRUB and MBR with installing a windows version >> (I know, i shouldn't do that, but i had to try some thing with windows). >> Unfortunately even that windows install did not succeed... now, i am up >> without a bootloader. I think, windows changed the MBR, so only windows >> has been tried to start. So i inserted a knoppix and did a grub-install. >> >> Now, grub is back... and it has got the old entries in it ... fine ... >> but >> it won't start. The error is: >> >> - Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 >> - The boot entry (kernel /boot/vmlinuz... root=UID=... >> - Error 15: File not found >> >> Any ideas to fix that? Maybe the grub-install command from Knoppix has >> been too old? (Knoppix detected my hd as hda instead of sda (when >> boooting >> 64studio). I also tried the 64studio installer to get me to the shell. >> But >> that doesn't work as the 64studio didn't include the grub installer >> commands. >> >> Any hints Or am I lost? (If yes, i think i should try to get the okay >> for >> a investment into a mac... as that might be a linux, just more >> userfriendly, and therefore much too expensive) >> > > Grub doesn't care about the hda-sda-module-issue, it just cares about > the sequence, e.g. one Linux call it hda and sda, but for another Linux > the same disks are sda and sdb, that's the way you could correct it, but > it's just important that "root (hdx,y)" is set to the correct number of > the disk sequence, 0 for the first disk, 1 for the second one etc.. > Because you're using "root=UUID", it should be the same like it's for > "root=/dev/disk/by-label/", you only need to take care because of "root > (hdx,y)".
Okay .... i will check that. What i don't understand at the moment. Where does grub get the list of kernels and partitions from? Is it stored in MBR and installed with update-grub or is it read from /boot/...? So, if i change the menu enries, i think i have to do a update-grub afterwards? > There still could be some other issues, but I guess you could fix your > problem by correcting "root (hdx,y)". > > You should have copied the MBR by the dd command, but don't panic, even > if Windows should have partitioned something there are tools to restore > the old partition table. no panic yet. When i run knoppix i can mount both partitions (/ and /home) so i could a least do a backup ... for a fresh install... Regards, Mathias _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
