Grub Error Collection [Part 8] [POST GRUB QUESTIONS HERE!]

[mjf55]

First glance show that you have a typo in fstab for the file system on the cdroms. You have audo, and it should be auto.
Also, in your grub.conf, Try removing video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap from your kernel line. When I compare to my grub.conf, that is the difference.
But... I have a feeling thats not it. Give it go and try. Let us know what happens
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[NathanZachary]

The video= line and the typo (audo instead of auto) are not the source of the problem. It actually seems like there is a problem with the base installation as it can't find the console or tty1. Have you ever been able to boot this system?
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[Eckos]

i figured out the problem was, the partition was empty. I did the installation on the folder before mounting. Which I thought I had mounted before the installation

[NathanZachary]

Glad you figured out the problem, and posted the solution here. Please post back if you run into any other troubles.
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[quicksand_45]

I am new to Linux and this is the first Linux version I have ever attempted to install. I tried to follow the handbook as best as I could, but It has gotten me nowhere. I have 2 HD's the master has XP and I want to do a dual boot. I tried to copy all the lines of code correctly and use grub to do the boot, but all the boot does is going straight to windows. so what I did was change the BIOS Boot device to HD-1, where my linux boot is. This was not in the handbook, but I was tired of redoing the install for the third time in the last 12 hours. I get some lines from my grub file that I typed along with some error. After this it continues to an extremely blurry screen, in which where I have the Windows XP and Linux Options, but niether work and both give some kind of error that I can't read due to the bluriness. anyhow this is what I can read....


Booting'Gentoo Linux 2.6.19-r5
root(hd1,0)
Filesystem type Unknown, Partition type0X7 kernel/boot-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init/linuxc ramdis=8192 real_root=/dev/db3 udev

Error 17: Cannot Mount Selected Partition

Any help is appreciated

[nixnut]

You changed the bios so it now boots the hd where grub is installed, but grub is now seeing the harddisk where xp is installed as hd1,0 and tries to boot from there. And since it can't understand ntfs partitions is spits out the error 17 message. If you edit grub.conf and change root(hd1,0) to root(hd0,0) you'll probably see some improvement. The blurry screen is probably because the line for the splashimage is also pointint to the wrong harddisk.

Oh and real_root=/dev/db3 udev is not right too. If you have a sata disk, you'll want to change it to real_root=/dev/sda3. sda because you changed the order in the bios.
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[quicksand_45]

can I do this without Redoing my whole installation for the fourth time??? how do I edit that file without putting in the boot disk and starting over??? also, it doesn't matter if Linux installed in hd1 it still has to boot from hd0,0? can you tell me more about what that line of code that has that line is doing?


thanks in advance

[nixnut]

[quicksand_45]

I edited the config file, but it still just boots right to windows XP, should I even be changing the BIOS boot from CD-ROM at all??? also, I installed linux on hdb ( that was a typo from before). hda is my windows hard drive.
this is my grub.conf

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz # does this have to be (hd0,0) or the drive I am installing Linux on??

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.19-r5
root (hd0,0) #does this have to be (hd0,0) or the drive I am installing linux on ?????
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb3 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5

# Only in case you want to dual-boot
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0) #Windows Partition and drive??
makeactive
chainloader +1

[quicksand_45]

OK so I think both those lines have to be changed to my master hard drive (hd0,0). I made this change, however I am still having problems. The Splash Image is now loading fine, and giving me the appropriate options when I set the BIOS to boot from HD-1. if I don't set the Bios boot on HD-1, then windows XP loads by itself. HD0 only boots to windows. when I choose Linux on the HD-1 boot, the code :
"Filesystem type Unknown, Partition type0X7 kernel/boot-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init/linuxc ramdis=8192 real_root=/dev/db3 udev"
is displayed followed by
Error 15: File Not Found
when Windows is selected this error is displayed after :
"title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0) #Windows Partition and drive??
makeactive
chainloader +1"
Error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format
therefore I am unable to boot linux or windows from HD-1 ( where linux is installed)

At least the splash screen is working


any help would be very much appreciated

[NeddySeagoon]

quicksand_45,

Post the output of

[quicksand_45]

Contents of fdisk -l: ( copied manually) :

[kienjakenobi]

I did a stage3 install from the 2007.0 minimal installation disk on a Pentium 4 computer. Right after compiling the kernel I copied the kernel image to the boot partition with this command:

cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r6

Later when I got to the point of creating /boot/grub/menu.lst I created this entry for Gentoo:

title Gentoo 2.6.23
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x31B video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap

When I reach the GRUB menu on boot and select Gentoo I receive "Error 15: File not found." I believe it is talking about the kernel image, but I am at a complete loss as to what is missing. I booted back into the minimal install disk and used the ls command to make certain that the image at /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage was identical to the file in /boot that I named "linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r6". I can boot perfectly well into Windows XP through GRUB, but my only other entry, Gentoo, gives that error. Furthermore, I have confirmed several times that my Gentoo partition is the fourth partition on my one and only hard drive.

These errors always end up being something silly, but I am not finding it this time.
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[NathanZachary]

Please post your /etc/fstab and your current partitioning scheme. It could also be that your kernel doesn't have the support for your PATA/SATA controller built in.
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[NeddySeagoon]

quicksand_45,

Remove your USB hard - drive, thats an unnacessary complication at the moment. We will add it later.
You are now left with Windows on /dev/hda (hd0) for grub and linux on /dev/hdb (hd1) for grub.

Leave the Windows boot loader on the MBR of (hd0) and we will install grub to the MBR of (hd1).
Grub will be able to boot both Windows and Linux and the Windows drive will only boot Windows.
When it looks like its working, you have to set your BIOS to boot from the second hard drive, so it loads grub.

Given the above, your grub.conf should contain (hd1,0) where grub partition references are required for linux and (hd0,0) for Windows.
Thats the first partition on the second drive.

Get back into your chroot install grub to the MBR of /dev/hdb with

[Eckos]

When I boot into Gentoo I get something complaining about root= hda3 or unknown block(0,0). I don't understand whats wrong with it

Heres the new grub.conf

[akirhol]

[NeddySeagoon]

Eckos,

Added the thread to the grub sticky - NeddySeagoon

[Eckos]

Okay I found the module needed now I get to Gentoo Linux part of the booting and get

failed to open the device '/dev/hda3': no such file or directory

[NeddySeagoon]

Eckos,

The kernel now has two different branches that support PATA devices.
The branch

[Eckos]

[quicksand_45]

well thanks NeddySeagoon for the help, but I can't get it going... When I boot Windows I get

[NeddySeagoon]

Eckos,

A few pointers. You don't appear to have any SCSI/SATA drives so Cannot open root device "sda3" is to be expected. Thats your 3rd partition on your first SCSI drive. Further unknown-block(0,0) means that the system cannot talk to your hard drive controller at all. You have on or both of those as problems.

Note how the shell in the initrd offers you hda partitions as boot options.

Your Hard Drive Controller is

[NeddySeagoon]

quicksand_45,

With Windows on your first hard drive this

[quicksand_45]

unfortunately these are the lines I have down for windows exactly, and I get that error regardless...