The short story: I updated my FC5 instalation to FC6 and all appeared to go well. When the system rebooted, I installed all the latest packages and again, no problems. Then I decided I wanted to look at xen so I downloaded the kernel-xen package and 2 other related packages. Now the system will not boot. No hint of grub even starting.
The details: I have a Pentium 4 3.4GHz system with 1GB RAM, the motherboard is an ASUS P5GD2-Deluxe and came with a 120GB SATA HD. I had a 160GB IDE drive containing my Linux partitions from a previous computer that I wanted to install in my new computer and make this a dual boot system with Windows on the 120G HD and Linux on the 160 HD. Well, I should have done a little research before I bought the new computer. I discovered that I cannot mix the SATA and the IDE drives. In the end I installed an IDE controller I had lying around and hooked the IDE drive up to that. I didn't want to install GRUB on the Windows disk so I put it in the MBR of the Linux disk. I wasn't able to boot into Windows from GRUB but I didn't spend any time looking into the problem and just used the BIOS to boot into Windows when I needed to. I first tried changing which kernel to boot but in the end I found that the problem is the root command. If I boot into rescue mode from the DVD and enter GRUB interactively: # grub grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 So why doesn't GRUB recognize the partition type and what is type 0x7? fdisk shows this: # fdisk -l /dev/hdi Disk /dev/hdi: 160.0GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cyclindes of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdi1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdi2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM The file /boot/device.map contains: (hd0) /dev/hdi (hd1) /dev/sda (For some reason /dev/hdi has become /dev/hdk now) All this looks OK to me. Can someone give me some ideas about how to debug this or perhaps inform me that what I am trying to do is impossible and it shouldn't have worked in the first place. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub