On 28 February 2011 12:25, dhk <dhk...@optonline.net> wrote: > I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions > since the initial install. > > The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff. Can't boot to Windows > or Linux. It looks like the Grub menu never comes up. However, it > seems to know about it, because the menu options can still gets executed > either after the time out or by pressing Enter. Then some stuff gets > printed to the screen and the boot process begins, but it errors before > the Operating Systems come up. When trying to boot to Windows, I have > no idea why it errors. When trying to boot to Linux, the fsck.ext3 > fails on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition. It seems to think it's > ext2, but when I checked (by booting to the livecd) with tune2fs -j it > says it's already journaling.
Consider booting from a LiveCD, check that /dev/sda7 indeed contains the root filesystem, unmount it and run: e2fsck -f -v -c /dev/sda7 > After the boot fails and I give the root > password, I looked in /dev and there aren't any sda partitions and I > have 12 on the disk. My disk looks like the following. >From a terminal start grub: ====================================== # grub GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 9216K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> find /grub/stage1 (hd0,2) <--If your /boot is indeed on /dev/sda3 and you have installed grub in there grub> root (hd0,2) <--as found above grub> set (hd0) <--install the bootcode in the MBR of the 1st hard drive grub> quit ====================================== Then you need to set up the /boot/grub/grub.conf file with the correct lines pointing to /dev/sda7 for your Linux root and chainloading /dev/sda1 for your MSWindows OS. As long as you have installed the right modules for chipset and fs in the kernel you should be able to boot. HTH. -- Regards, Mick