fresh install for dual boot with winxp : grub hangs

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Jul 1 16:27:22 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Hans Horn um 18:02:

> All drives use 'auto' on everything in the bios.

Might be worth to try LBA explicitly.

> After making all the changes you recommend and issuing 'grub-install 
> /dev/hda', it tells me
> '/dev/hdd3 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive'.
> 
> Did I miss something?

I miss the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" below.

> here's what fdisk tells me now and the content of the few files that I have 
> edited:
> 
> ------------------------------
> fdisk /dev/hda <p>
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes

Did you manually post it here? Just because in the line above it should
be "Disk /dev/hda" and not "hdb".

> 150 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41346 cylinders

150 heads is a bit "uncommon" I feel.

> Units = cylinders of 9450 * 512 = 4838400 bytes
> 
>   Device  Boot    Start    End      Blocks    Id    System
> /dev/hda1             1     991    4682553+   1b    Hidden W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2  *        991   41346  190680210+    7    HPFS/NTFS

No good setup, the fist partition is extended and the second is the one
with bootable flag, though the first is marked as hidden.

> ------------------------------
> fdisk /dev/hdb <p>
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 46.1 GB, 46115758080 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 89355 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>   Device  Boot    Start    End      Blocks    Id    System
> /dev/hdb1         85282   89346    2048287+   82    Linux swap
> /dev/hdb2             1   50793   25599640+    c    W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdb3  *      50793   85282   17382330+   83    Linux

Here the third marked as bootable. hdb1 is physically at the end of the
disk but has the first letter. Did such setups ever work for you?

> ------------------------------
> /boot/grub/device.map:
> 
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hdb
> (hd1) /dev/hda
> 
> ------------------------------
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> LABEL=LINUX   /         ext3    defaults        1 1

Did you change the LABEL entry by hand? Does the real label set on the
partition fit with this fstab entry?

Alexander


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