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On 02/28/2011 07:25 AM, dhk wrote: |
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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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Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong. 1) The |
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(hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2). That fixed the problem |
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with no Grub menu. 2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should |
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have been (hd0,0) for the Windows boot partition not the Window |
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Operating System. |
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Now when I boot the Grub menu comes up and booting to Windows works. |
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However, I still have the same problem booting to Linux. It chokes on |
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/dev/sda7 which is my root partition and my real_root kernel option. |
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Thanks, |
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dhk |