First: Here is what lead up to the problem
Question at the bottom:
F9 has been running great since it came out
I read that one should install F10 before F11 so I did install F10!
Everything went great.
(1) Then I tried to install the F11 iso dvd. After the "anaconda started"
message at the bo
John Koshi escribió:
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
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
Gerry Reno escribió:
cat /boot/grub/device.map:
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd3) /dev/hdi
(hd2) /dev/hdk
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command com
Gerry Reno wrote:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K 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> root (hd0,0)
File
I have a machine that has both an onboard Highpoint HPT372 ATA
controller and a Highpoint HPT302 Rocket 133 ATA controller as a PCI
card. The BIOS can see all the drives attached to both controllers.
Highpoint ATA controller cards always show up first in the drive
lettering as I've installed a num
> I am sorry to trouble you some.But my grub has a little problem .When
> the computer boot up,
> I can see a commond line show as grub> but any menu hasn't show
> out.MYcomputer has two operating system one is windowsXP on hda1 one is
> linux on
> hda2 .I have fix up the windowsXP "s ntldr on the
I am sorry to trouble you some.But my grub has a little problem .When the computer boot up,
I can see a commond line show as grub> but any menu hasn't show out.MY computer has two operating system one is windowsXP on hda1 one is linux on hda2 .I have fix up the windowsXP "s ntldr on the MBR,and us
Hi I am running Suse Linux Professional 9.1 and KDE 3.3.0 and I am dual booting with Windows XP Professional.
Just recently I experienced a peculiar problem. When I booted the machine, instead of the boot menu it dropped to a command line prompt which said '>Grub' and nothing else.
I cannot b
Hi,
I have a system (with single hard disk) installed with RedHat 9.0 and WindowsXP professional. I was using GRUB as my bootloader. It was working fine but all of a sudden, I am seeing a strange problem.
The GRUB screen does not wait for my input to choose the OS to boot. It just vanishes
I know it's ugly to reply to myself, but anyway, just a small note -
adding an entry to grub (or otherwise changing its conf) doesn't
require reinstalling it, unlike lilo. 'make install' in the kernel
runs /sbin/installkernel, which in RH eventually runs a program
named grubby, which has no manpage
Hello Jon,
Your problem isn't with grub, but with ntldr. Can you please post your
boot.ini? I guess the relevant line is something like this:
c:\somefile="GRUB"
where somefile is a copy of the first sector of /dev/hda3.
I really can't imagine this happening without your intervention, so
either you
I have had grub installed on my RedHat 8 system for sometime now. It had
been working fine.
Just recently, I needed to compile a later kernel (2.4.21) to take
advantage of some additional functionality.
make install on the kernel updated my grub configuration, but I can no
longer boot from the
Hey,
I installed Red Hat Linux just yesterday, and for a reason that I don't know of,
the GRUB boot loader will not execute on the startup. Instead, it says
something like, 'GRUB hard disk failure', but I can't remember the exact words,
I've been troubleshooting Linux for a while and haven't seen
Barry Skidmore writes:
> I have Linux (Red Hat 7.2) installed on internal IDE drive 1 (hda) and
> Windows XP installed on internal IDE slave drive 4 (hdd). Below is the
> grub.conf file I am using. However, when I try to boot Windows XP, I
> receive an error 21 ("the selected disk can not
I have Linux (Red Hat 7.2) installed on internal IDE drive 1 (hda) and
Windows XP installed on internal IDE slave drive 4 (hdd). Below is the
grub.conf file I am using. However, when I try to boot Windows XP, I
receive an error 21 ("the selected disk can not be found"). Any help
would be app
ok first off sorry if im asking in th ewrong place but the faq didnt
seem to cover this.
i have a dell latitude cpxj laptop. the internal hard drive has both
win2000 and winXP on it (2000 is on primary partition and xp is on
extended). i also have the modular bay hard drive.
the internal harddriv
grub currently has problems booting newer version of the bsd's directly.
for now you'll have to use /boot/loader, the grub team is looking for
assistance with getting grub to work with the bsd's maybe you can help.
can anyone else on the list give any extra info to Christian.
On Mon, Jan 07, 200
At Tue, 01 Jan 2002 11:35:43 -0500,
Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Is it possible to find out what bootloader booted the system if the user
> has both GRUB and LILO installed?
No. Any i386 boot loader should pass its own type to Linux (See
"Documentation/i386/boot.txt", for more information), but Linux
d
I write ik [install-kernel] script [http://www.ramdown.com/war/ik]: but
I have a little problem.
Basically, these guys are saying if they install lilo, uninstall it,
install grub, uninstall lilo etc etc, it will mess up..
However, as you can see below the bootloader cannot correctly determine
the
At 28 Dec 2001 10:39:07 -0500,
Jay McCarthy wrote:
> The manual says that that means it cannot properly detect the disk's
> geometry. Will putting a "geometry" command in the menu.lst be a fix for
> this? Or is there something else I that will fix this that I do not
> know?
No and yes. Because th
When grub starts it says,
"GRUB Hard Disk Error"
The manual says that that means it cannot properly detect the disk's
geometry. Will putting a "geometry" command in the menu.lst be a fix for
this? Or is there something else I that will fix this that I do not
know?
btw I'm not on the list - pleas
fdisk /mbr
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:30:31PM +, Tom Mortimer wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having a problem with grub, after using it successfuly with
> Windows 98 and Linux (Mandrake) i decided to remove linux, so i just
> deleted the linux drive partition(!) Now my machine (P2 333, 192 Mb
> 13 Gb H
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:05:09PM -0600, G. Arena wrote:
| I am trying to create a GRUB boot floppy as per "The GRUB manual"
| The first line: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
| works and loads on the floppy apparently properly.
| The second line: dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
| g
I am trying to create a GRUB boot floppy as per "The GRUB manual"
The first line: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
works and loads on the floppy apparently properly.
The second line: dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
gives the error message: /dev/fd0, Invalid argument.
Can anybody Help
On 21 Nov 2001, Nitin Bilgi wrote:
> Has any body got grub to boot diskless workstations over network?
>
> The tftp and DHCP are working correctly and grub downloads the image over the
>network and boots However I am getting the Message "Unable to mount root file system"
> CAN ANYBODY HELP?
Ar
Has any body got grub to boot diskless workstations over network?
The tftp and DHCP are working correctly and grub downloads the image over the network
and boots However I am getting the Message "Unable to mount root file system" CAN
ANYBODY HELP?
USING IBM 200e server running susi 7.0
Gordon> ``48, 1'' is 0x3001, not 0x4801.
Of course, you are right ! I'll try that next week and let you know...
Gordon> Maybe try that, but I can't say that I know what your problem
Gordon> is.
My problem is that I've done too much hex lately and I have a tendancy
to interpret everything I se
> "Jason" == Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups:
Jason> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315&repeatmerged=yes
Well, as he said and as I've seen, it works with 2.2 but not with some
or all 2.4. Doe
sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315&repeatmerged=yes
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:01:57PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> Maybe try that, but I can't say that I know what your problem is.
msg04606/pgp0.pgp
Descrip
> - Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
> > - I also tried passing the root= option as an hex value. I used:
> >
> > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.12-686
> > root(hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.12-686 root=0x4801 ro
>
more information on DAC960 problems. ring any bells for anyone?
- Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
> Date: 14 Nov 2001 21:00:50 +0100
> From: Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#111315: grub: pro
diff -ur grub-0.90.orig/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c grub-0.90/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c
--- grub-0.90.orig/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c Sat Feb 3 00:31:03 2001
+++ grub-0.90/stage2/fsys_reiserfs.cSun Oct 21 11:23:16 2001
@@ -620,9 +620,7 @@
if (super.s_journal_block != 0)
{
INFO->journ
this can't be the case I have a machine here with this controller and
grub and it boots fine!
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Catalin Beju wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm experiencing problems with grub in conjunction with HPT 370 IDE
> controller.
> All my HDD are connected to this controll
Well, that was a good suggestion nevertheless! There is no problem
if we use grub 0.90.
Thanks,
--Martin
Jason Thomas wrote on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:15 +1100
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no idea, but you might want to try a newer version of grub!
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:12:19PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We have dual PIII boxes that are using Grub & bootp for a network
> boot. Root is on a ramdisk.
>
> We recently upgraded the Linux kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.10 a
> "Jason" == Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> Adrian, are you able to test this, and maybe debug!
Jason> Thanks.
Just back from hols.
>> Here is what I have in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>>
>> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.9-686 root (hd0,0) kernel
>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:10:56PM -0400, dman wrote:
> | > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-686 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1 ro
no its a DAC960 raid controller.
your problem could be because your fstab was wrong? or you didn't have
devfs mounted, which can be setup to do so automatically when you
co
I think I may have some helpful information regarding this.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:25:16AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
| - Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
...
[ kernel 2.4.x ]
...
| > - partitions are detected correctly (including the root partition)
| >
]>
> Subject: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd
>
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.90-9
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use grub to boot the standard Debian kernel 2.4.9 on a machine
> where the root partition is on a DA
have you tried older versions of grub, it is possible changes I made in
the package could be causing your problem.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:30:55AM +0200, Greg S . wrote:
> Hello, I had GRUB but it does not work any more since i updated my BIOS,
> when "Loading grub..." my PC reboot.
--
Jason
Thanks for reminding me about the partition table.
sfdisk -d /dev/hda > sfdisk.dump
if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
sfdisk --force /dev/hda < sfdisk.dump
This should preserve the partition table and enable the overwrite of the
mbr.
Larry
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> On Mar 12, Larry Pell
On Mar 12, Larry Pells wrote:
> Janus,
>
> Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd
> if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda
Be careful, as this also deletes the partition table. You risk to
loose your Windows partition by doing this. You should at least dump
(and print on paper) the
Janus,
Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd if=virgin.mbr
of=/dev/hda
then delete Mandrake again. virgin.mbr is is attached and must be in the current
working directory
that the command is executed. Also hda is your hard drive location. This may be
differnet on you
Hello,
I have a problem with Grub: getting rid of it ..
I had Windows 2000 and Mandrkae installed on two
paritions,
I deleted Mandrake, and now it starts up in Grub. I
need to remove Grub from the boot record; I've tried
fdisk -mbr but I get the following erroe message:
"ERROR: Can´t save o
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