On 28 February 2011 12:25, dhk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions
> since the initial install.
>
> The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff. Can't boot to Windows
> or Linux. It looks like the Grub menu never comes up. However, it
> seems to know about it, because the menu options can still gets executed
> either after the time out or by pressing Enter. Then some stuff gets
> printed to the screen and the boot process begins, but it errors before
> the Operating Systems come up. When trying to boot to Windows, I have
> no idea why it errors. When trying to boot to Linux, the fsck.ext3
> fails on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition. It seems to think it's
> ext2, but when I checked (by booting to the livecd) with tune2fs -j it
> says it's already journaling.
Consider booting from a LiveCD, check that /dev/sda7 indeed contains
the root filesystem, unmount it and run:
e2fsck -f -v -c /dev/sda7
> After the boot fails and I give the root
> password, I looked in /dev and there aren't any sda partitions and I
> have 12 on the disk. My disk looks like the following.
>From a terminal start grub:
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# grub
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 9216K 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 /grub/stage1
(hd0,2) <--If your /boot is indeed on /dev/sda3 and you have
installed grub in there
grub> root (hd0,2) <--as found above
grub> set (hd0) <--install the bootcode in the MBR of the 1st hard drive
grub> quit
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Then you need to set up the /boot/grub/grub.conf file with the correct
lines pointing to /dev/sda7 for your Linux root and chainloading
/dev/sda1 for your MSWindows OS.
As long as you have installed the right modules for chipset and fs in
the kernel you should be able to boot.
HTH.
--
Regards,
Mick
