Hmmmm...here's a hack that might help (WARNING: Master Boot Record Surgery): Go to the laptop that DOESN'T have these problems and "dd if=/dev/sda of=grub.mbr bs=512 count=61", then take that file and go over to a laptop that has an image but MBR problems, boot to a Live CD or something and "dd if=grub.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=61" and see whether that fixes it What you're doing here is copying the raw data from the MBR and Stage 1.5 of GRUB of the hard disk that doesn't have problems to a file, then writing the contents of that file directly onto the first 61 512byte sectors of the hard disk that has the problems. This might destroy data on the hard disk that has problems and require it's re-partitioning, depending on your setup, but if it's not working then I'm assuming you don't have valuable, unique personal data on it. (if you can't tell, I've had to wrestle with GRUB and the MBR before, myself) Good Luck!
HTH, Simón ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason McCoy Sent: Tue 11/14/2006 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] GRUB issues The boxes I am trying to image are laptops...150 of them. They ony have 1 drive each. I tried the find command also and got Error 15: File not found My device.map file only has (fd0) /dev/fd0 When installing the OS from an installation CD on IDENTICAL hardware I do not have any of these problems. This is very puzzling. Jason On 11/14/06, Simon Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is /dev/sda the only hard disk on this computer? Have you tried "find /boot/grub/menu.lst" to make sure your grub sees /dev/sda1 as (hd0,0)? Have you checked your /boot/grub/device.map? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Device-map.html HTH, Simón ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason McCoy Sent: Tue 11/14/2006 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] GRUB issues I have tried that MANY times at this point. Nothing grub related wants to work for me. Also, as far as I know, it should be "root (hd0,0)" and then "setup (hd0)". However, I have tried both ;-) I get "Error 21: Selected disk does not exist" when I do the grub commands. However, as i stated in my previous post, I can mount /dev/sda1(which is grub's hd0,0) and look at the contents just fine. For thos wondering, I generally do not install with one big partition, however, with the problems I have been facing I decided to simplify the installation to make it as managable as possible until I can figure out the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.net email is sponsored by: A Better Job is Waiting for You - Find it Now. Check out Slashdot's new job board. Browse through tons of technical jobs posted by companies looking to hire people just like you. http://jobs.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
