Hi Carlos,
Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst contents of testing and main system?
Maybe you can append also
- "ls -la" of hda06
- fdisk -l /dev/hda
- fdisk -l /dev/hdd
Michal
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hi,
I added a new hard disk, and it's giving me problems booting the "main"
system.
Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/hda - (hd0)
It boots a test partition, /dev/hda9 (hd0,8). An entry in the menu.lst
file allows me booting my main linux, in /dev/hdd6, with a separate /boot
partition in /dev/hda6:
/dev/hda9 test system (suse 10.2)
/dev/hda6 - /boot |\
/dev/hdd6 - / |=> main system (suse 10.2)
This grub is installed with:
grub:
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,8)
quit
That's the current "working" situation.
What I want to do and doesn't work, is to make the MBR in hda boot instead
of the test/boot, the main /boot.
I do this:
grub> root (hd0,5)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5)
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)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p
(hd0,5)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst".
.. succeeded
Done.
It claims to succeed. However, when I boot it enters a loop: after the bios
screen goes off, it goes black, blinks twice, and starts the bios booting
screen again, never ending. It never displays any error message, or it
goes so fast I can't see it. I don't think there is any.
I have to boot from a dvd, and reinstall grub booting the test partition
again. I can not convince grub to use a different /boot partition.
What is wrong?
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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