Hello!
I cannot write the grub bootloader to disk: File not found.
I have created a configuration for grub 0.5.95 (menu.lst):
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timeout 30
default 0
title Linux 2.2.15
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-scsi root=/dev/hda6
title Windows 98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd0,4)
setup (hd0)
title Change the colors
color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
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Then I have started 'grub' and tried to setup GRUB on the MBR:
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GRUB version 0.5.95 (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 (hd0,4)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --force-lba (hd0)
Error: File not found
grub>
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After that I have tried to use 'find':
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GRUB version 0.5.95 (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> find /vmlinuz
(hd0,3)
grub> find /usr/bin/less
grub> find /var/log/messages
(hd0,3)
grub> find /home/qsim/models/throw.lisp
grub> find /usr/local/src/omsim.tar.gz
grub> find /spare/testfile
grub> find /dos/dl/modelicaparser.tar.gz
grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-scsi
grub>
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This is strange, because only the root and var partitions can be seen by grub.
LILO (21.4.2) works without problems, so it must be a problem with grub.
(In LILO, the bootloader is installed in /dev/hda3, root is /dev/hda6.
I want to install grub into the MBR (/dev/hda).)
My system configuration:
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Mainboard: NMC 7VAX, VIA KX133, BIOS 2000/05/19 (forced LBA mode for IDE HDD)
Linux 2.2.15
grub 0.5.95
/dev/hda: Maxtor 53073U6 (30 GB UDMA66)
driver: ide-disk version 1.08
settings:
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
bios_cyl 3736 0 65535 rw
bios_head 255 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
file_readahead 124 0 2097151 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw
multcount 0 0 8 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 0 0 1 rw
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And some more infos:
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 104376 61780 42596 59% /
/dev/hda8 3068252 1010168 2058084 33% /usr
/dev/hda9 2048188 154596 1893592 8% /var
/dev/hda11 5116476 500684 4615792 10% /home
/dev/hda10 8192832 1530228 6662604 19% /usr/local
/dev/hda2 2048000 32 2047968 0% /spare
/dev/hda1 5114696 4024076 1090620 79% /dos
/dev/hda5 38859 3372 33481 9% /boot
# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail,notail)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda8 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda9 on /var type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda11 on /home type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda10 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda2 on /spare type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0)
/dev/hda1 on /dos type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0)
/dev/hda5 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3736.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 638 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 639 893 2048287+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda3 * 894 3238 18836212+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 3239 3736 4000185 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 894 898 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 899 911 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 912 944 265041 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 945 1326 3068383+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1327 1581 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 1582 2601 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 2602 3238 5116671 83 Linux
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
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Andr� Heynatz
University of Bremen - ARTEC
