** Reply to message from Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:58:40 -0400
> On 2007/11/01 17:06 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: > > > from Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:17:42 -0400 > > >> On 2007/11/01 14:55 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: > > >> > GRUB seems still OK to be, it points to a stage-2 loader > >> > which is at sector 0x1973e28 (which is inside /dev/sda6 somewhere). > > >> > (GRUB, I should add occupies its own small (7MB) EXT2 partition, sda7. > > >> > GRUB stageX @PSN : 0x01973e28 Located on : /dev/hda6 > > >> > So, all is apparently as it should be, and I can't tell why it does not > >> > boot > > >> It's above my understanding why Grub needs to be in two partitions, so > >> maybe > >> a DFSee 'part -b-' report would be useful. > > > There you have me, I didn't know about being in two places. I also don't > > know > > about a "part -b report". Do you mean the DFSDISK report? I can send it as > > an > > attachment easily. > > The references to both /dev/sda7 and /dev/hda6 and sda7 would seem to imply > there are at least two disks on which at least portions of Grub might be > found, or maybe one disk with multiple device names. I'm sorry, that is the result of my clumsiness. There is only one HD, and it is a SATA drive. The DFSee report came back naming "hda" in both places above, and I replaced one of the instances with "sda" as I was mulling over the significance of what appears to be an error of some sort. I forgot to change it back when I sent my note to this forum. The only "hda" on the machine is the CD/DVD drive. That is a certain, as you can see from the fact that, when I need to unmount the CD/DVD drive in order to eject a disk, my command is "umount /dev/hda". > The onscreen report from simply starting DFSee ends with a chart listing > partitions and their characteristics. The one you get from running DFSee in > Linux instead of DOS, doz or OS/2 is a bit different. From Linux, on the > command line after starting DFSee you run 'part -b-' to get a chart identical > to the one provided by the other varieties by default. It's essentially an > amplified version of output from 'fdisk -l <diskdevice>' for all accessible > disks. I ran DFSee v9.xx from OS/2, because that is the only way I can do it. The whole problem, of course, is that I can't access Linux. I do not have a DFSee v9.xx bootable disk, but I do have one for v8.02, but I am sure this earlier version does not give a much detail as the new v9.xx does. Do you want me to run DFSDISK with DFSee v8? Or some other report? Nothing would be easier, just say the word. I have an Ubuntu disk, which I think can run live. I have never used it for anything. I am assuming that if I boot from it, I could run the Linux DFSee v8 -- but I also assume that I would need a second CD/DVD drive to do this. But could I boot the openSuSE DVD to "Rescue", then remove the DVD and insert the DFSee DVD to run the utility? If so, which partitions would I need to mount, if any? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #18: Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
