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On 01 Aug 2003 16:56:58 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote
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On 01 Aug 2003 16:54:23 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote
Again, you're not understanding the problem. When you
boot
you transfer
to the MBR which loads GRUB. GRUB then loads the config
file and prints
the boot images and identifies to itself where the
kernels images are
located. When you select one it transfers to that kernel
image
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:23:40 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote:
That's where you are wrong!!! It doesn't find the .conf file that is
why it goes no further. The very first thing it does is try to locate
the .conf file so that [...]
*sigh* That's
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Again, you're not understanding the problem. When you
boot
you transfer
to the MBR which loads
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:23:40 -0500, Otto Haliburton
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:26:39 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
Perhaps the problem owner can explain what I am
misunderstanding here?
IMHO you have understood the problem perfectly. Unless we hear once
more from Ashley (who is confronted with this
Update, forgot one little detail.
Maybe I misunderstand here, but this seems to be a
situation
where -
A working Linux system using GRUB with MBR on HD-A,
.conf
file on HD-A
had a new disk drive HD-B added to it.
They did nothing apparently to reconfigure the box
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:26:39 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:51:38 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote:
What I did notice is there wasn't a /boot
partition in the listing that was sent
You don't need a /boot partition. The grub.conf was perfectly valid with
/dev/hda1 = (hd0,0) being the root
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 16:56, Otto Haliburton wrote:
For you to solve this problem I think that you need to read what happens
when you boot. I'm not trying to insult you but from what you are
stating you don't understand how the computer boots and therefore what
happens in GRUB.
On Fri,
Maybe I misunderstand here, but this seems to be a
situation
where -
A working Linux system using GRUB with MBR on HD-A,
.conf
file on HD-A
had a new disk drive HD-B added to it.
They did nothing apparently to reconfigure the box
bootwise.
They added the
Ashley said that was done as well as changed the hardware
to
single boot
disk from master/slave. The only solution seems to be
reinstall hdb
which indicates to me that it is not hardware related but
something is
causing the partitions to be changed. There maybe some
link or
weird thought
switching her disk geometry scheme to LBA and
re-installing GRUB should
I did not see her? original psoting so I dont
know exactly what her two drive setup was.
But I thought most systems were running LBA mode by default
now adays.
Perhaps the setup had two different
Michael Schwendt wrote:
Unless we hear once
more from Ashley (who is confronted with this weird problem), we can
only speculate that is hardware-related most likely. Setting the
disk geometry scheme to LBA and re-installing GRUB should
_theoretically_ fix it.
This has certainly sparked an
Well I'm not so sure about that.. whenever GRUB doesn't
find it's grub.conf file,
it just enters it's CLI mode from where you can do things
manually. This is not the
problem.
I've had the same situation happen to me with LILO,
when I
first installed RH,
, and one fine day for
What I did notice is there wasn't a /boot
partition in the listing that was sent
You don't need a /boot partition. The grub.conf was
perfectly valid with
/dev/hda1 = (hd0,0) being the root partition and
containing the /boot
directory.
The code from MBR fails to load GRUB main
Let refine my answer to it can't find the grub directory
period.
The MBR is not even finding the start of the secondary
loader here.
Perhaps it all happens too fast -
Does the drive light flicker when it tries to load phase two
or not? If no disk activity after the initial MBR load is
seen
This has certainly sparked an interesting
conversation,
and aside
from me trying everything everyone has suggested here, I
don't know what
else to do than to just say 'fuck it'. It works with hdb
in place.
There is, to me, no logical explanation as to why grub
would just
decide
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Michael Schwendt wrote:
Unless we hear once
more from Ashley (who is confronted with this weird
Remember. You can boot with a floppy and everything works correctly
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Well I'm not so sure about
There is also a explanation if the volumes are LVM or RAID.
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Remember. You can boot with a floppy
.
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Well I'm not so sure about that.. whenever GRUB
doesn't
find it's
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