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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:07:12 -0400 Sean Mitchell |
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<SMitchell@×××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I am getting a 'selected disk does not exist' error in grub. |
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> > Everything in |
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> > the build from source worked fine until this point. I have a |
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> > promise U66 |
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> > controller, and on device 0,0 I have my linux harddrive. During |
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> the |
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> > install, it was recognized as hde. I tried grub with (hd3,0), |
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> > and it did |
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> > not work. I have other harddrives in my system (hda, hdc), and |
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> when I |
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> > tried root (hd0,0) or root (hd2,0) I recived the same error, that |
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> the |
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> > selected disk does not exist. |
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> > does anyone know why grub is not recognizing my disks? |
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> > thanks! |
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> Not that this helps much, but I have had the same problem with my |
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> KT7 RAID |
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> board which uses a HPT370 controller. I have |
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> |
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> hda |
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> hda1 - NTFS (Windows 2000) |
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> hda2 - Reiserfs (Gentoo /) |
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> hde |
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> hde1 - ext2 (Gentoo /boot) |
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> hde2 - FAT32 (just data) |
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> hde3 - extended |
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> hde5 - swap (Linux swap) |
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> From memory, when I tried a |
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> # root (hd1,0) |
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> it was fine, but the |
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> # setup (hd1) |
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> gave an unrecognised partition or something like that. At any rate, |
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> I |
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> installed LILO and everything is fine now. I've never been able to |
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> figure |
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> out what advantages GRUB has anyway, so LILO is still my preferred |
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> boot |
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> manager. |
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> |
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The only advantage to grub is that you don't need to rerun grub (like |
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lilo) when you add a new bootable stanza to the list of bootable |
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systems. Otherwise, it's a pain in the kiester. You can't boot every |
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type of filesystem with grub, for example. |
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Collins Richey |
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Denver Area |
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gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed |