On Friday 06 May 2005 17:14, Andre M�ller wrote: > Cedric wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just bought a shiny new 160GB HD, copied my linux stuff to it, ran > > grub, and rebooted. > > > > Grub doesn't start of this new HD, normally i should get something like: > > Grub loading stage2 ........ and then the menu. > > > > I get absolutely nothing, not even Grub. > > > > After this i installed windows2000 on the drive, and the bootloader of > > windows works fine. Then i reinstalled grub by using knoppix, but when i > > reboot i again get nothing, not even Grub. > > starting off with the obvious: > did you run > > setup(hd0) > root(hd0,2) > > in grub? > > best, > > andre
Nope, i want to boot from /dev/hda4, so i had the following conversation with grub: grub> root (hd0,3) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... no Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst ". .. succeeded Done. Now i removed the floppy, and rebooted. After my bios has detected the HD i hear a click from my HD, and at the same time the cursor drops one line. After that nothing Now i copied the /boot directory to /dev/hda3 and ran grub again: grub> root (hd0,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... no Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst ". .. succeeded Done. Now i removed the floppy, and rebooted. After my bios has detected the HD i hear a click from my HD, and at the same time the cursor drops one line. After that nothing When started from the floppy the kernel correctly identifies the drive: Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <snip> hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda3 hda4 I never had these problems with my other 40Gig drive, so i suspect that grub has some problems with the size of the new drive. regards, cedric > > > I have made a grub floppy, so i can still boot linux > > > > One weird thing is that drive management sees this drive as a 130GB disk, > > and linux as a 160GB disk. > > > > here's the partition layout: > > Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > /dev/hda3 2551 3188 5124735 83 Linux > > /dev/hda4 3189 19457 130680742+ 83 Linux > > > > and menu.lst: > > # Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > # By default boot the first menu entry. > > default 0 > > > > # Allow 30 seconds before booting the default. > > timeout 30 > > > > # Use prettier colors. > > #color green/black light-green/black > > > > title LFS-6 > > root (hd0,3) > > kernel /boot/2.6.10-02 root=/dev/hda4 ro acpi=force vga=0x31a > > > > title LFS-6_test > > root (hd0,2) > > kernel /boot/2.6.10-05 root=/dev/hda3 ro acpi=force vga=0x31a > > > > title Windows > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > > chainloader +1 > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Kind regards, > > Cedric -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
