Grub - Error 21

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 11 12:39:23 UTC 2004


General Manager wrote:
> I have trying to install Fedora on a two drive system. The boot drive is a 
> XP OS. I installed Fedora on Drive 2.
> Everytime I reboot I get
>  "Grub Loading Stage 1.5"
> "Grub Loading.. please wait
> 
> ERROR 21
21 : Selected disk does not exist (from info grub).

> The system stops at this error
> 
> The "/boot/grub/device.map" file reads as follows
> 
> THis devicemap was generated by anaconda
> (fd0)      /dev/fdo
> (hd0)     /dev/hda
> (hd1)    /dev/hdb
> 
> Any help on this matter would be appreciated

OK: a few stupid questions.

1. Are both these hard drives parallel ATA (old-fashioned IDE), or are
   either of them SATA or SCSI?

2. What sort of chipset do you have (Intel, Nvidia, Via?) Are either of
   these drives on some sort of RAID adapter or add-in adapter?

3. If these are parallel IDE, you really do have both of them connected
   to the same IDE cable, don't you? And one of them is jumpered to
   master, and the other to slave?

Thanks,

James.

-- 
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@westexe.demon.co.uk  | A. "Because you're not a printer."
                      |     -- Stephen Judd





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