Funny. From kernel 2.6.18 on I receive this message when cold-booting my (linux only) notebook. On second try, it all works well. Disk geometry and partitioning has not been changed. I guess a bug in kernel.
Alle Wednesday 27 December 2006 09:45, Robin Atwood ha scritto: > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: > > > > You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions > > are identified as. > > > > > Also, I need to know how to "change" the Windows partition so that > > > Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. > > > > That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf: > > > > map (hd0) (hd1) > > map (hd1) (hd0) > > > > WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot > > happily. > > I recently had that message because I changed a partition's file system to > ext3 and ext3 was neither compiled into the kernel nor in the initrd file. > In this case, I think the USB Mass Storage module will need to be available > plus the SCSI support. > > HTH > -Robin. > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Robin Atwood > ------------------------------------------------------ -- [email protected] mailing list
