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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:22:56
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0608302311260.5077@neenxvf.ubzryvahk.bet
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] boot slave drive by Thufir
1 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Thufir wrote:
2
3 > From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
4 > Subject: boot slave drive
5 > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
6 >
7 > fedora (FC5) is on hda (master), hdb (slave) has windows 2000 and gentoo.
8 >
9 > I'm only unable to boot gentoo. When booting gentoo here's the error
10 > message:
11 [...]
12
13 Progress :)
14
15 New error message:
16
17 checking root filesystem
18 fsc ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4
19
20 Possibly non existen or swap device?
21
22 * fileystem couldn't be fixed
23
24 Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue).
25
26
27 dismounting filesystem
28 rebooting
29
30
31 //////////////////////////////
32
33 current grub file:
34
35 [thufir@arrakis ~]$
36 [thufir@arrakis ~]$ su -
37 Password:
38 [root@arrakis ~]#
39 [root@arrakis ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
40 1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
41 2 #
42 3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
43 4 # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
44 5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
45 6 # root (hd0,0)
46 7 # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
47 8 # initrd /initrd-version.img
48 9 #boot=/dev/hda1
49 10 default=0
50 11 timeout=5
51 12 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
52 13
53 14 #hiddenmenu
54 15
55 16 title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
56 17 root (hd0,0)
57 18 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
58 rhgb quiet
59 19 initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
60 20
61 21 title win2k
62 22 map (hd0) (hd1)
63 23 map (hd1) (hd0)
64 24 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
65 25 chainloader +1
66 26
67 27 title Gentoo
68 28 kernel (hd1,1)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
69 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb4
70 29 initrd (hd1,1)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
71 30
72 31
73 [root@arrakis ~]#
74 [root@arrakis ~]# exit
75 logout
76
77 [thufir@arrakis ~]$
78 [thufir@arrakis ~]$ date
79 Wed Aug 30 23:10:34 IST 2006
80 [thufir@arrakis ~]$
81 [thufir@arrakis ~]$
82
83 /////////////////////////
84
85 I don't think it's a problem with grub per se, but that hdb used to be
86 hda, which is why there's an error regarding the filesystem of hda.
87
88 Gentoo needs to be "informed", I think, that it's on hdb now.
89
90 --
91 Thufir
92 <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>