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fudge
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Jul 2002
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 Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:13 am Post subject: Shuttle SN95G5, SATA and grub |
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Hi All,
I'm having difficulty busting through this part of the installation process, that is, getting grub to work!!!
I have a single SATA 160GB drive which when booting off the amd64 2004.2 live CD becomes /dev/hde (once ide-disk is loaded).
My disk partitioning is as follows (dual boot):
| Code: | primary 1 / 20GB
primary 2 swap 2GB
primary 3 WinXP
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Note that I do not have /boot as a separate partition!
My /boot/grub/grub.conf is:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
# splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# For booting GNU/Linux
title caracal
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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I try run and get:
| Code: | # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hde
Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a block device. |
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| Code: | grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/hde
Could not find device for //boot: Not found or not a block device. |
If I run the grub shell, I can confirm that it sees my hard drive as hd0, but as this is the IDE, not SATA, way of looking at things, how valid is this view? I think my final setup, using libata in SCSI low leverl drivers is that I will have /dev/sda*
I've been a lilo man for many, many years so trying to nut this out is taking far longer than I'd like, Even searching the forums has been a case of trying lots of things but none work.
I'd very much appreciate guidance in the right direction.
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YD
Guru
Joined: 30 Oct 2004
Posts: 466
Location: Riga, Latvia
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: |
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hd0 = Bios Boot drive.
It doesn't matter where the drive is plugged. I've got /dev/sda & /dev/hda, /dev/sda is hd0, and /dev/hda is hd1.
[edit]
I've got SATA as an IDE drive in BIOS, but I use SCSI drivers in Linux. |
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fudge
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Jul 2002
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Played some more and managed to get things happening!!!
In my grub.conf, I changed an incorrect line to the following:
| Code: | | kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 |
grub-install still didn't work for me so I went straight into the grub shell as documented
| Code: | grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit |
Rebooted and my two options for booting either into Gentoo or Windows both work. I'm still hankering for an amd64 version of lilo though ;-)
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