Hi all, I have a problem with the grub bootloader, as follows: I have a laptop with an 80G disk, with Windows XP on the first half of the disk (NTFS), and Fedora core 4 (LVM) on the rest. Dual boot is managed by grub, which was installed with the Fedora install.
I wanted to clone this disk, so I don't lose hours of setup and install effort on both OS's, and more hours of my work, in case of a disk crash. So, I did the following: 1) Cloned the entire 80G disk to a 120G USB disk. 2) Restored from that clone onto a new 80G disk of the same geometry, and replaced the existing disk with the newly cloned one. 3) On start-up, got a grub hang at "GRUB", so I did the following: a) Boot from Fedora core 4 rescue CD b) chroot /mnt/sysimage c) grub-install /dev/hda 4) Now the grub hang went away, and gave me the OS selection menu, and Windows booted fine, but selecting the Linux installation gave me "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition". So I did the following: a) Boot from Fedora core 4 rescue CD b) chroot /mnt/sysimage c) grub-install /dev/hda d) Enter grub -> grub<CR> e) grub> find /grub/stage1 -> gave me (hd0,3) f) grub> root (hd0,3) g) grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda4 h) grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img. -> gave me: "Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure". 5) Then I exited grub, repeated steps (a) and (b) above, and rebuilt the initrd: "mkinitrd -v -f initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4", 6) Repeated from step 4(a), and got the same error at step (h). Is this a known problem in grub, or am I doing something wrong in these steps? Thanks in advance for a fix to this very frustrating problem. regards, John _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub