At 12:05 PM 2/10/06 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 2/10/06, Lief Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 01:45 PM 2/10/06 -0500, Rich Ernst wrote:
>
> >Lief Hendrickson wrote:
> >
> >>Can someone help with dual boot install problem?
> >>I installed a second hard drive on a system with Windows XP. The drive
> >>with the existing XP installation is master (hda). The drive is slave
> >>(hdb). The system also has a CD drive. It does not have a floppy drive.
> >>I booted to the CD drive with the Fedora 3 install CD. I installed Linux
> >>to hdb. I selected the GRUB boot loader.
> >>After install, on reboot I got the following message:
> >> "GRUB Hard Disk Error"
> >>Nothing else happens. Any ideas about what the error is and how to fix
> >>it? Has something happened to the MBR? Have I lost the XP installation?
> >>Thanks for any help.
> >
> >Sounds like there isn't a /boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders
> >on hdb.
> >
> >What is your partition setup?
> >
> >If my first guess is correct, might be easiest to just do a fresh install
> >to hdb and ensure that there is a minimum 100 meg /boot partition as the
> >first partition on hdb.
> >
> >Rich
>
> Would that affect being able to boot into hda?
> I used the automatic partitioning during the Fedora 3 install on hdb. How
> would I find what the partitions are since I can't boot into either
> operating system? I do have Knoppix so I could boot into it but don't know
> what to do next. Thanks.
Automatic partitioning should have given you a 100MB /boot partition.
To see what you have, boot Knoppix.
Boot: knoppix 2 (this gets you to a command
line, no time wasted in GUI)
$ cat /proc/partitions (quick look at all partitions
detected by Knoppix)
$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l (more detailed look at all partitions)
I checked the partitions. Here is what I got (assuming I type it right -
printer was not connected):
$cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 40146624 hda
3 1 40146403 hda1
3 64 195360984 hdb
3 65 104391 hdb1
3 66 195254010 hdb2
Here's what I got with $sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4998 40146403+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 243324 195254010 8e Linux LVM
--------
I ran the install again and tried to delete partitions with Disk Druid (to
start over). I got an error message saying I could not delete it because
it was part of the LVM Volume group ???
I needed to get access to the WinXP so I ran fixmbr (restore the master
boot record) from a boot CD and was able to get back to WinXP. Now the
second hd has Linux with no apparent way to access it.
Could this a GRUB loader problem with large disks? I didn't do anything
fancy - just all the defaults so am surprised at the road block.
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