Dear sankar, I have not read through all you have written yet. let me first have a clarification Do you have windows of any flavour installed on the laptop? usually it is installed in drive C; which is usually the first partition. I find that grub reports that the 2 linuxes are in partition 1 and 7. something and all seems to be muddled up. Pls boot into whichever linux that is now bootable and as root issue fdisk -l and send me the results. best/harish
2008/12/19 sankar pillai <[email protected]> > Dear Harish, > > The following are the detailed results I encounter with > my laptop. > > Can you suggest a viable solution? I hope you can guide me in knowing much > about the operation of linux > > I noted down the Grub bootloader's series of commands when my laptop is > functioning well. > > They are as follows. > > > > Before booting my laptop shows the following four options menu in text > mode interface. > > > > SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10-2.6.16.54-0.2.8 > > Failsafe—SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10-2.6.16.54-0.2.8 > > Ubuntu 8.04 kernel 2.6.24-16-generic > > Ubuntu 8.04 kernel 2.6.24-16-generic(recovery mode) > > > > The first one is highlighted.This OS will load as default one. > > Using arrow keys,other options can also be chosen and they can also be > loaded. > > > > When any of the four options is highlighted,pressing key e leads to > series of commands as follows > > > > For the first one, pressing e gives > > > > root (hd0,2) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16.54-0.2.8-smp root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x314 > resume=/-> > > initrd /intrd-2.6.16.54-0.2.8-smp > > > > For the second one, pressing e gives > > > > root (hd0,2) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16.54-0.2.8-smp root=/dev/sda1 vga=normal > showopt-> > > initrd /intrd-2.6.16.54-0.2.8-smp > > > > For the third one,pressing e gives > > > > root(hd0,6) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root = > UUID=232d9e4c-4f8-474d-> > > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic > > quiet > > > > For the fourth one pressing e gives > > > > root(hd0,6) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root = > UUID=232d9e4c-4f8-474d-> > > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic > > > > > > In the above original condition,both Suse and ubuntu can be loaded > successfully. > > > > It so happened that Suse got corrupted and ubuntu can alone be loaded. > > > > Suse is installed again.Now before operation of Grub boot loader.the Suse > OS is loaded. > > I cannot load Ubuntu. > > > > > > > > Now the condition is as follows. At the prompt of grub > > > > 1.find /boot/grub/stage1 gives the following message > > > > (hd0,0) > > (hd0,6) > > 2. root (hd0,0) gives the following one > > > > File system type is reiserfs,partition type 0x83 > > 3.root (hd0,6) gives the following message > > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83 > > > > 4.setup (hd0,6) gives > > > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists ….yes > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists ….yes > > Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1.5" exists ….yes > > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,6)"…failed(this is not fatal) > > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,6)"…failed(this is not fatal) > > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,6) /boot/grub/stage2 p > /boot/grub/nemu.lst " ….succeeded > > Done. > > > > 5.When typed root (hd0,6) and enter > > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83 > > > > 6.Entering boot > > > > Error 8 : Kernel must be loaded before booting > > > > 7.Entering kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.-16-generic root gives > > > > [Linux-bzImage,setup=0x2a00,size=0x1ce278] > > > > 9. Entering boot gives series of messages with the last message > > > > [1405.801849]kernel panic-not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(104,1) > > > > 10. Setup (hd0,0) gives > > > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists ….yes > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists ….yes > > Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1.5" exists ….yes > > Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5(hd0,0)"…18 sectors are embed > > ed. > > succeeded. > > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) (hd0,0)1+18 p > (hd0,0)/boot/grub/sta > > ge2 /boot/grub/nemu.lst " ….succeeded > > Done. > > > > 11.entering boot > > > > Error 8 : kernel must be loaded before booting > > > > 12.Entering kernel /vmlinuz > > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00,size=0x150aef] > > > > 13. Entering boot > > > > kernel panic-not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,9) > > > The above are the responses for the various commands. > Can anyone suggest a solution for this condition > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > U.Sankar > Lecturer in Physics > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
