Re: Doesn't boot Linux on SATA, but OpenBSD

So, when I root (hd0,1,a) followed by chainloader +1, it boots to OpenBSD splendidly. But root (hd0,0) [ext2 filesystem], makeactive, kernel vmliuz--- ro root=/dev/sda6, initrd ..., boot dies with pivot_root ... cannot open /dev/console ... Kernel panic. Yes, /dev/sda6 is '/' What is it that I ma

[RFE] Installing grub into an XFS partition

Please cc: me, I am not subscribed to bug-grub. As we all know, you cannot install grub into an XFS partition because the XFS superblock is in sector 0 of the partition. grub-install must not overwrite sector 0 which means that you cannot use 'chainloader +1' to boot a secondary grub menu from an

Fallback for SATA and IDE drives when booting from a CD?

I posted the following on grub-devel before I realized that this was the better list for it... We are booting from a CD which needs to forward to a bootable hard drive (if possible). The hard drive might be SATA, might be IDE. My current menu.lst looks something like this: #

Grub runs upto stage 1.5 & then gives error 17

Hi all, I have one 80 GB HDD which has Windows XPSP2 (NTFS based) & Ubuntu 6.06 upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 (ext2). It had GNU GRUB 0.97 running underneath it all. Everything was running fine & suddenly yesterday it gave me error 17. Looking in Grub Legacy came to know tht error 17 means :-