Boot blows up on amd 64 x2

dcyberdoc · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Got everything installed on an HP Pavillion AMD 64 x2 machine. Finally got grub to load the kernel, but it tells me it
"can't load root partition. Pass correct root parameters" or some such equivalent. I've tried making it ro, I've tried both /dev/hda6 and /dev/sda6 (sda6 is what I mount during installation, etc) Still no love. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm not a grub expert, but it seems like it is past that.

On a related note, I tried to boot my XP media partition and it just constantly reboots. What is going on? I have to hide (hd0,0) and unhide (hd0,1) in grub to get it to recognize the XP partition. However, I get the XP banner, then spontaneous reboot. I can't get the restore partition to boot (which is hd0,0) and I'm at a loss.

Anyone?

XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

/dev/sda* is a scsi drive (or sata), grub will recognizize it after other hard drives try hd1,* (* is a wildcard it can stand for any character) if you have more than one IDE drive it may even be hd2 or 3...

sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

Are you using an ATA Hard drive or a SATA one? Can you post your grub.conf and your /etc/fstab? If you can't boot into your system you could boot in though a live cd and mount your hard drive there so you can get at the files to post them and fix them if necessary.