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On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I |
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>> spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it |
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>> almost worked. I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should |
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>> be repairable once I find the mistake. If it's something else, I may be |
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>> doing this again next weekend. |
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>> Thanks again, |
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>> |
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>> dhk |
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> What error does it give you? |
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> PS. Are you chainloading Gentoo from the MSWindows boot manager, or |
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> MSWindows from GRUB? |
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I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions |
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since the initial install. |
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The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff. Can't boot to Windows |
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or Linux. It looks like the Grub menu never comes up. However, it |
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seems to know about it, because the menu options can still gets executed |
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either after the time out or by pressing Enter. Then some stuff gets |
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printed to the screen and the boot process begins, but it errors before |
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the Operating Systems come up. When trying to boot to Windows, I have |
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no idea why it errors. When trying to boot to Linux, the fsck.ext3 |
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fails on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition. It seems to think it's |
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ext2, but when I checked (by booting to the livecd) with tune2fs -j it |
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says it's already journaling. After the boot fails and I give the root |
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password, I looked in /dev and there aren't any sda partitions and I |
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have 12 on the disk. My disk looks like the following. |
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Filesystem ~Size Mounted |
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/dev/sda1 128M MS Windows 7 boot partition - HPFS/NTFS |
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/dev/sda2 50G MS Windows 7 - HPFS/NTFS |
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/dev/sda3 512M /boot - ext2 |
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/dev/sda4 extended partition |
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/dev/sda5 512M swap |
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/dev/sda6 5G FAT32 |
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/dev/sda7 12G / - ext3 |
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/dev/sda8 50G LVM2 - ext3 |
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/dev/sda9 50G LVM2 - ext3 |
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/dev/sda10 50G LVM2 - ext3 |
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/dev/sda11 50G LVM2 - ext3 |
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/dev/sda12 50G LVM2 - ext3 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-usr 8G /usr |
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/dev/mapper/vg-home 5G /home |
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/dev/mapper/vg-opt 3G /opt |
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/dev/mapper/vg-var 2G /var |
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/dev/mapper/vg-tmp 1G /tmp |
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Thanks |
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dhk |
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