Grub, help pls.

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

Ok this is my 2nd time going through the install and same error again. I have 1 40 gig hard drive, so first of all, I am not sure why it insists on labeling it hde but it does.

When I go to configure grub

grub> root (hd0,0)

Error 21: selected Disk does nto exist. I have tried different combo's etc, and if I do root ( then tab nothing comes up.

My fstab is as follwoing:

/dev/hde1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hde2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hde3 / ext2 noatime 0 1

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs 0 0

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 12:28 am Post subject: Re: Grub, help pls.

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

I get the same error with

grub> root (hd4,0)

I have tried other combo's too just for the hell of it 5,0 etc.

It is an MSI mobo with built in raid controller. I am not using the IDE 3 and 4 though.

The Harddrive is on IDE 1 and 2 DVD roms on IDE 2. Gentoo 1.4 did not do this to me. The reverse order thing be kinda cool, cept for the fact I have to start all over :-p

Even then, there is no guarantee I just don't get the same error again

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

Ok the kernel option is:

t_2199 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 146

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

go into the grub console and if you have already installed a kernel just do a

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

I have tried every combo 0,0 - 6,2 and nothing, same error.

If my HD is on IDE, why the hell is it not showing up as hda?

sigh I dun wanna go back and reinstall 1.4, or be really sissy and install Fedora.

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

I installed the default kenrel but

grub> find /boot/vmlinuz

gives me file not found

FYI I am sure I did something stupid but /shrug.

fusion · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 119

type in root (
then press the tab key to get a list of avaible devices

t_2199 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 146

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:

do an ls /boot then do a find on any file in there, just make sure its not a directory. If it still cant find it, I think you should try lilo as a quick fix, because I have heard grub has some troubles with raid cards.
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hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

boot has the following

.keep
boot --> .
grub
initrd-2.4.25-gentoo-r2
kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2
lost+found

I tried lilo but it gave me error too, I will try again and post that.

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

with lilo

/sbin/lilo

Fatal: raid_setup: stat(*/dev/hde")

Maybe 2004.1 doesn't recognize this mobo correctly? I found it strange that 1.4 recognized my eth card no problem, but 2004.1 didn't unless I told it to load in the beginning

smp -noapic

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:13 am Post subject:

it thinks that /dev/hde doesnt exist for some reason, you could try running a:

sh /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide

maybe it misdid one of the devices.
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hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

Sigh, I guess I just go back to 1.4 and redo.

Sargonas · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:15 am Post subject:

try booting from 1.4 then doing a grub or lilo and see if it works then.
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hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

Wow Good suggestion.

It allowed me to mount /dev/hda rofl, 1.4 see's it correctly, not sure how it is all gonna pan out.

grub> root(hd0,0) was successful now.

Doing and emerge for syslog-ng and vixie-cron etc.

Well see how this pans out. If successful I will take it as a wild one for the win column

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

Ok, So I have HORRIBLE luck with mobo's. For some reason my bios wasn't seeing IDE, hence the problem when Grub probed it.

After flashing the CMOS, all is well, but I am left with the daunting task of trying to repair the current install or starting over

atm, I am guessing LILO gets me up and running pretty fast, and I can hack grub later /em fingers crossed

hookooekoo · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 196

Ok this pains me, but I am gonna reinstall from 1.4.

I am still very new to Gentoo, so if I update portage, is that much different than installing 2004?

If i want to upgrade the kernel, is it just as easy as emerging it? or is there alternative/preferred methods?

thanks

digitalb0y · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 55 Location: Fburg, USA

Are you using Sata raid?
Cause if you do then you probley have the same issue that I did
I did'nt have the Option for the Device in The Kernel
I have an VIA SATA RAID DRIVE so I used the following and it fixed my issue

re-configure the kernel

Device Drivers ->
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RTL Support ->
[*] VIA82CXXX Chipset Support

I don't know if this helped but also checked this cause I heard this would help
<*> SCSI emulation support

then recompile the kernel

hopes this helps
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