Dave Barton wrote:
I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and
encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3
on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32
partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving remainder
unallocated for Linux partitions. Booted to the 10.3 installation DVD
and the install to hd1, including on-line updates, went perfectly, until
the first reboot, where I get:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
Grub loading, please wait...
Error 21
At which point everything grinds to a standstill.
Restart from the installation DVD and finalize the installation via the
"Other Options -> Boot Installed System" option. Then I can log in to a
fully operational KDE desktop, where everything appears to be working
perfectly.
The GRUB files read:
/boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
/boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Jan 18 08:55:09 EST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,5)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250824A_5ND3YLCZ-part6 vga=0x317
resume=/dev/sdb5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.5-31-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,5)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd1,5)
chainloader (fd0)+1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250824A_5ND3YLCZ-part6 vga=normal
showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.5-31-default
/etc/grun.conf
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd1,5)
quit
Have checked the BIOS and hardware jumpers are set correctly.
I have never experienced any GRUB issues with any previous installs,
consequently I have not had reason to educate myself about GRUB
configuration. I have unsuccessfully searched for and tried a few
Googled suggestions. I need to get this machine back to my colleague
soon and I would hate to hand it back as a Windows only box.
Can any of you folks here help me out with this?
TIA
Dave
Dave,
I guess the only other way I can help is to post a working grub config
from one of my dual boot machines hand hope it helps. Here goes:
The drives I have are sda (windows) sdb and sdc (linux raid) with md0,
md1 and md2 as follows:
ripper:/home/david # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 20641788 6299548 13293604 33% /
udev 517984 128 517856 1% /dev
/dev/md0 69960 15487 50861 24% /boot
/dev/md2 286877332 220164 272084616 1% /home
/dev/sda1 61440560 54750856 6689704 90% /windows/C
/dev/sda6 17928508 66556 17861952 1% /windows/D
Just substitute /sdb for /md above and below for your setup (your
partition numbers may vary) My swap is /dev/sda5
The device.map is:
ripper:/boot # cat grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd2) /dev/sdc
(hd1) /dev/sdb
What does yours show for (hd1)? I ask because in your first menu.lst
definition for 10.3 you have root (hd1,5) and then
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250824A_5ND3YLCZ-part6. This may be
right, but it is worth a double check. You may want to try setting this
to /dev/sdb# where # is what is shown as / in response to df.
the working menu.lst I have is:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jan 1 22:39:43 CST 2008
default 2
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,0)/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.13-0.3
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.13-0.3-default root=/dev/md1 vga=0x31a
resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.13-0.3-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.13-0.3
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.13-0.3-default root=/dev/md1 vga=normal
showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0
edd=off 3
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.13-0.3-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader (fd0)+1
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