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jerome187
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 Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject: grub setup |
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step 23.2, Grub on the MBR
root (hd0,5)
works fine
setup(hd0)
returns:
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Chacking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 15: File not found
and there IS a boot/grub/stage1
i've tryed
setup (hd0,5)
but that returns:
Error 12: Invalid device requested |
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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any time that i have gotten this message was due to the fact that grub wasn't fully installed. just remerge it and you should be golden, at least that worked for me.
if that doesn't work, you can run grub off of your gentoo install cd, and that will work. |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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that seemed to work, but i (thought) i finished installing and i rebooted and grub is all funky, theres vertical lines down the screen and i can barly read what its sayin, but i do get the the box where i can select wither i want to boot Gentoo Linux or Windoze 2000, when i select Gentoo, its says something like it cant find my kernel (i probbly messed up the path or something) and when i try to boot 2000 pro it hangs, it says
Booting 'Windows 2000'
root (hd0,6)
Filesystem type unknow, partion type 0x7
chainloader (hd0+6)+1
so close, yet so far....
i thinks i messesd up the grub settings, how can i fix it?
i made a grub boot disk BTW, i can boot that and get a grub command prompt |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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ok, booted from cd, chrooted back into system, now i'm at the grub.conf file, heres what i have:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb6 hdc=ide-scsi
title=Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd0,6)
chainloader (hd0,6)+1
whats wrong? |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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HORRAY!!!
Gentoo boots now, i had all the hd0,5's wrong, there suppoest to be hd0,0
but windoze still dosent work...\
any suggestions? |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| jerome187 wrote: | title=Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd0,6)
chainloader (hd0,6)+1
whats wrong? |
The problem is NTLDR (the Windows bootloader) only installs itself to a primary partition, even if the bulk of your Windows installation is on an extended partition like (hd0,6).
Hopefully, you did not delete your primary Windows partition to make room for Gentoo, because getting rid of NTLDR makes Windows unbootable. |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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ahh crap...
so theres no way windows will boot off a extened partion?
i actually partioned the drives while installing windows, and it booted fine witout grub there |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:45 am Post subject: |
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this freaking sucks, i thought i had it installed correctly this time....
well, i'll give it one more shot then i'm back to redhat. |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:00 am Post subject: |
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| The easiest way to setup Windows & Linux for dual-booting is to install Windows (all of it) to /dev/hda1, then install Linux anywhere you want and put GRUB in the MBR. |
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prberens
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Hang on there.... I have windoz2000 on the second partition and it works fine... My grub.conf (menu.lst) has the following for windoz
| Code: | title=Windows 2000 Professional
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
boot |
Notice the partition mapping.
Also I changed the windowz boot.ini file so that it looks to the second partition
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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"
/fastdetect
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Hope this helps 
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Above^ that is on his second drive (not second partition)
You don't have to blow away gentoo to redo windows. You can mv gentoo around to make room for a primary windows partition as long as there is some space to do so. Then all you have to do is change the fstab and grub.conf files to the new locations of gentoo.
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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oops, i allready partioned the drive and installed windoze on hdb1  |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| cyrillic wrote: | | The easiest way to setup Windows & Linux for dual-booting is to install Windows (all of it) to /dev/hda1, then install Linux anywhere you want and put GRUB in the MBR. |
so do i even need to make a /boot partion?
heres what i'm thinking:
/dev/hdb1 windows
/dev/hdb2 large data storage for both linux and windows to use (FAT 32)
then the gentoo linux install entirly in extended partions
/dev/hdb5 swap
/dev/hdb6 root
do i need to create a /boot partioin anywhere? |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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heres what i have::
partion # what it is
1 windoze
2 boot partion
3 FAT 32 Data storage
4 extended
5 Linux /root partion
6 Linux swap
!where does the boot flag go?! |
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dol-sen
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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No, you don't need to. BUT it is very adviseable for kernel protection. If you don't have much space left then you can make it smaller, say 35 megs. You just won't be able to store as many different kernels in it.
You can alway change it later if you get another drive. Just boot from the livecd, move the directories around different partitions, change fstab & grub.conf.
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jerome187
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 12:04 am Post subject: |
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i've got lots of space, a 100 meg boot partion is nothin on my 120 giger.
but i still need to know where to put the boot flag |
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 12:23 am Post subject: |
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The best way is to put it on the /boot partition so that you leave the windows boot loader and MBR alone. A windows re-install then won't blow away your grub. you only have to change the boot partition flag from /boot to windows and back again.
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jerome187
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 6:29 am Post subject: |
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ok, i'm at the grub step, the install guide says to do this:
grub> root (hd0,0) // Your boot partition
grub> setup (hd0) // Where the boot record is installed, here, it is the MBR
I dont want to do the second command, do i? Do i just do this insdead:
grub> root (hd0,1)
PS: my boot flag is on /dev/hdb2 (which is (hd0,1) to grub) |
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0,1) |
This will setup grub to the boot partation. If this has the boot-flag on it, it'll start GRUB. If it is on Windows it'll skip GRUB.
You could also choose to boot everything from the NT loader. That's what I do, it's easier. If you do this you should set GRUB's timeout to 1, just enough to be able to recover something if it's broken. | Code: | | dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 |
Just do this in linux (after having setup GRUB), and copy /bootsect.lnx somewhere windows can access it (floppy or FAT32).
Finish the rest of the install, but reboot in windows.
Now login, and copy the bootsect.lnx file to your c:\
Now press Start>Run, type cmd and OK. Now type: | Code: | attrib -r -h -s c:\boot.ini
notepad c:\boot.ini |
This should look like | Code: | [boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" |
Just add a line that says | Code: | C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
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after it, save the file, go back to your command prompt and type attrib +r +h +s c:\boot.ini and you're done. |
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