"Jennifer M. Morse" wrote: > > I have a second hard drive caddy which plugs into the removable media > bay of my Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook. This is the same bay as my floppy > drive, so, I have to remove the floppy to access the second, 10 gig, > drive. My primary drive is a 40 gig drive that holds Win2k. It has two > partitions, the boot C: drive is NTFS. The E: drive is Fat32, and used > to store all my document files. > > I updated the BIOS of my notebook to put the boot order as follows: > > CD/DVD drive > Removable media hard drive > floppy drive > primary hard drive > > I installed Redhat Linux 7.3 right "out of the box" with Grub as the > boot loader. It was the basic "notebook" install in the Redhat install > screen. I have the Personal edition that I ordered directly from > Redhat. I installed it onto the removable drive. Because I don't want to > write to the MBR of the primary drive, I configured the installer to > create a /boot area on the beginning of the 10 gig drive. That way, when > I remove the drive, the machine will boot to Windows, and when the drive > is installed, it will boot to Linux (because it's earlier in the boot > order than the C drive). > > When I boot with the 10 gig drive in the bay, it starts to go through > the boot process and then stops with this error: > > root(hd1,0)
Change this to (hd0,0) > File System Type unknown, partition type 0xde > Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdc2 hdb=ide-scsi > error 17 cannot mount selected partition > > It doesn't technically "freeze", because I can still type on the keys > and get responses. But, it alternates between the opening Grub splash > screen, and the above message. The boot process is certainly halted from > proceeding any further. > > That said, I've been asking around and as far as I can tell, it's likely > to be a problem with Grub trying to load the C drive intead of the > removable drive. Each drive is configured properly in fstab (the primary > drive is hda and hdb, the removable drive is hdc). > > I'm able to manuever around in redhat rescue quite well. I can mount the > installed drive and it's all there. It only won't work wiith Grub. I > also haven't gotten "find" to work although that may not be related. > > This is all the information I know how to provide. If you need more > (especially specific documents), let me know so I can copy them out to > text files. > > -- > Jennifer M. Morse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Brookhaven National Laboratory > Physics Department -- Building 510 M -- ext 7710 > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
