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On 28 February 2011 12:25, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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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. |
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Consider booting from a LiveCD, check that /dev/sda7 indeed contains |
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the root filesystem, unmount it and run: |
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e2fsck -f -v -c /dev/sda7 |
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> 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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From a terminal start grub: |
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# grub |
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GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 9216K upper memory) |
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[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB |
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lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible |
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completions of a device/filename. ] |
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grub> find /grub/stage1 |
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(hd0,2) <--If your /boot is indeed on /dev/sda3 and you have |
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installed grub in there |
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grub> root (hd0,2) <--as found above |
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grub> set (hd0) <--install the bootcode in the MBR of the 1st hard drive |
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grub> quit |
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Then you need to set up the /boot/grub/grub.conf file with the correct |
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lines pointing to /dev/sda7 for your Linux root and chainloading |
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/dev/sda1 for your MSWindows OS. |
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As long as you have installed the right modules for chipset and fs in |
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the kernel you should be able to boot. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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