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Kronos
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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject: Grub Error |
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Alright everything seemed to be working before I rebooted.
I did setup (hd0,0) on the boot partition (hda1) and setup(hd0). It worked fine, gave all the correct messages. And then at boot time it says... GRUB Hard Disk Error. Which doesn't tell me a whole lot. I know the drive is good. Any ideas?
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Kronos
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If it helps, i'm using a 2.6 kernel. If there are any extra lines/options I need to throw in. But that shouldn't make it hang soon as it boots, not even splash or anything.
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michaelb
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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What kind of disk controller are you using? What is your grub.conf? Do you have multiple hard disks?
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Birnenpfluecker
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Could you please post your grub.conf and your /etc/fstab. |
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Kronos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Regular IDE controller... no multiple hard disks yet.
grub.conf:
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timeout 30
default 0
fallback 1
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# For booting GNU/Linux
title Gentoo Linux - 2.6 kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6 root=/dev/hda4
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
#title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
# For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
# chainload /bootsect.dos
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
# Change the colors.
title Change the colors
color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
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/etc/fstab:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 02:50:53 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda5 /mnt/game ext3 noatime 0 3
/dev/hda6 /mnt/iso ext3 noatime 0 4
/dev/hda7 /mnt/mp3 ext3 noatime 0 5
/dev/hda8 /mnt/downloads ext3 noatime 0 6
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy noauto,rw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/dvdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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Kronos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Also, maybe this gives some insight:
Lilo says:
Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature. |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, hda1 is not flagged as bootable. | Code: | # fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2431.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2431 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 71 530145 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 72 2431 18956700 83 Linux
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Note the asterisk in the boot column. If you do not have this, you need to type 'a' at the fdisk command prompt to toggle the bootable flag.
Lastly, you should remove the section about installing GRUB from the grub.conf file. It doesn't belong in there.
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Kronos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, yes, cfdisk reports /dev/hda1 as bootable.
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Kronos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone have any further ideas whatsoever? Kinda stuck here.
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G2k
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:10 am Post subject: |
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I'm in the same exact situation....
fstab looks fine, i have the * under my windows xp partition and my linux boot partition, my grub.conf file was checked by multiple people including ops in #gentoo and I did the grub shell thingy correctly but still, it gives me the error GRUB hard disk error. I'm using a 2.6.3 gentoo-dev-sources kernel (genkernel if that helps any.) I'm pretty much stuck here so any help is appreciated 
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